V4 - week 6 - poetry The Lesson and Vegetarians

Today's objectives

Poetry 
Review last week's poem
Vegetarians - R. McGough

Alquin Magazine
Mon Ami & Me - Reading & Vocabulary
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Middelbare school

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Today's objectives

Poetry 
Review last week's poem
Vegetarians - R. McGough

Alquin Magazine
Mon Ami & Me - Reading & Vocabulary

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Groups
1) Klaas /  Jochem / Bauke / Jolt
2) Femke / Grytsje / Dautzen / Silke
3) Rogier / Hidde / Lyke / Andes
4) Jochem  / Bart Wagenaar / Emma / Nynke
5) Hester / Tom / Elise / Lennaert
6) Wesley / Dennis / Annelie / Marianne / Ruben
Jelena -> independent work


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The Lesson - Robert McGough


1. What is going on in this poem?


2. What is the double meaning of stanza 2, last two lines"- "To Teach a Lesson


3. What is the teacher doing? Give evidence from the poem




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The Lesson - Robert McGough



4. What is the double meaning of "to pop a head around" ?


5. What is the pun in "first come, first severed”?


6. Which "lesson" does the teacher give? In other words, what does he teach his class?


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Vegetarians

1) Why does the narrator feel that vegetarians are cruel and unthinking people?

2) What happens when "a carrot screams when grated" "a peach bleeds when torn apart" and "a tomato spills its brains"? What literary device is this?


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Vegetarians


3) What does the narrator mean when he says that "potatoes,..., the soil's little lobsters"?  What literary device is this?

4) The narrator makes a final appeal in the  last 4 lines. 
A) What is he saying? B) What is the origin of these lines (where do they come from)?


5) Why does McGough write such a poem on Vegetarians? 
      What does he want to express with it?

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Mon Ami & Me

Reading Comprehension

Ex. D - WB p. 33

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Mon Ami & Me

Vocabulary

Ex. E - WB p. 33-34

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Mon Ami & Me

Watching & Listening

Ex. F - WB p. 34-35

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Homework

Ex. J - WB p. 35/36

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