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Pre- Reading ActivitiesSlide2
My grandmotherSlide3
A. DESCRIBE YOUR GRANDMOTHER:
1. She is_________________________________________.
2. She wears._______________________________________.
3. She likes to_______________________________________.
4. She doesn’t like to __________________________________.
What do grandchildren usually feel about their grandmother?
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Distinguishing Different Perspectivesהבחנת
נקודות מבט שונות
Different people view things differently.
The ability to identify different points of view is called
“Distinguishing Different Perspectives”
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Why is it useful for communication?Try to think of the group decision or an argument with a friend.
Think of other situations when ‘Distinguishing Different Perspectives’ is important’?Slide5
Is she old or young?Slide6Slide7Slide8Slide9
A Group Discussion How is your perspective similar to or different from your classmates’ one?
1. Why would it be useful to distinguish different perspectives in the following situations?
* When trying to get a group decision______________________________________
* In an argument with a friend___________________________________________
* When reading a book or watching a movie________________________________
2. When else might this thinking skill be useful in everyday life? __________________________________________________________________
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What feelings are evoked?Slide11
Vocabulary Practice1. Copy the following words and phrases.
2. Which of them relate to the grandmother and which to the granddaughter? Fill in the table.
Grandmother
GranddaughterSlide12Slide13
washed
the sheets- towel- sunned the mattresses-tired bones- filled with tears- trapped- pass bySlide14Slide15
Analysis of the form
Free verse-no rhyme
1 stanza
Punctuated with four lines
3 sentences: each sentence contains different part of the content
line:1-7-grandmother is talking about her day
line: 8-14-we see how the granddaughter feels about it
line:15-18-we see what would happen if the granddaughter had not shown the grandmother respectSlide16
Literary Terms
Setting
-where and when the story takes place
A stanza
-a group of lines which form a unit in the poem.
Theme
-the theme is the central idea or message in a story or poem. We can usually find the theme by asking, “What is this story/poem about?’Slide17
Basic UnderstandingWho is the
speaker
in the poem?
Who is the speaker talking about?
What does the old woman do during the day? Name two things.
4. What do we learn about the old woman’s life?
A girl/a young woman/ the granddaughter who is visiting her grandmother She washes the sheets and suns the mattresses.
She is talking about her grandmother.
She would not say so many words.
We learn that she spends her day doing housework, which is very tiring; she is very lonely; she wants to share her thoughts and feeling with others and was waiting for the opportunity to do so when the speaker passed by.Slide18
A 1. The poem describes a meeting between a young woman and her grandmother. Which of the following words express the speaker's attitude toward her grandmother in the beginning of the poem and at the end of the poem ? Use the thinking skill of DISTINGUISHING DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES to help you.
Circle the granddaughter’s attitude in the beginning of the poem in blue and at the end of the poem in red.
Playful
*angry *loving *caring *indifferent *humorous *sorrowful *sarcastic
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2.
3
. Has this poem changed your perspective of family relationships? Explain
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HOT Skill-Inferring
To ‘infer’ means to make a que or come to a conclusion about something based on information you have.
Infer=read between the linesSlide21Slide22
What would you infer if a woman in a story hides behind a wall when she sees another woman?
If a man who has little money wears a very expensive watch?
In the poem “Grandmother’ what can you infer from the line ‘my eyes filled with tears’? How does the speaker feel?Slide23
What can you tell about the relationship between the grandmother and her granddaughter from the poem? Use the HOT Skill of Inferring to answer the question.
Reading between the lines,
I suppose
that the grandmother is neglected by her granddaughter as she has nothing to say to her but ‘hello’. On the other hand, the attitude of grandmother towards her granddaughter is also not so warm and friendly. I realize this from the fact that the grandmother is not trying to hug or kiss her granddaughter.Slide24
5 .Answer the questions:
The setting is the time and place in which the events of a story or a poem occur. What is the setting of the poem?
Where:
don’t know-possibly in the grandmother’s house /room/yard
When:
later in the day when the grandmother has finished all her chores.
Did the speaker intend to stop and have a real conversation with her grandmother? Why or why not? Which words in the poem helped you decide?No , the speaker did not intend to stop and have a real conversation with her grandmother. She was going to say “Salaam” and walk away.Slide25
3. Why did the speaker’s eyes fill with tears? What does she realize?Her eyes filled with tears because she felt guilty that she:
did not intend to give up any of her time to have a real conversation with her grandmother and/or
has never taken the time to find out how her grandmother spends her days.
4.
Shirazie’s
main message in the poem is__________Slide26
Bridging Text and Context
Sameeneh
Shirazie (1967-) was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and grew up in a close-knit family. Her own grandmother, who lived with the family, was an important figure in her childhood. The poem Grandmother was written out of love and admiration for her. Shirazie has also lived in Australia and in the Middle East, and the subject of much of her poetry is about change, love and family. Today she works at the Royal University for Women in Bahrain.
What does the information above add to your understanding of the poem Grandmother?
The information adds to my understanding of the poem because Shirazie loved her own grandmother, and this feeling is expressed in the poem. Her grandmother lived with her family, and we can understand from the poem that she also did the chores in the house. Shirazie chose to write the poem about her grandmother because she was a central figure in the poet’s own life.Slide27
The poem describes a visit that a granddaughter pays to her grandmother.Speaker
-granddaughter. We can see this in the last lines of the poem (l.18- my grandmother)
Setting
-where? don’t know the visit takes place (room? house?)
When-(infer) end of the day as grandmother describes all the chores she has done through the day.
Theme of the poem-relationship we have with the elder members of our family.
First two lines- the granddaughter doesn't really care about her grandmother-had not asked her much just how she feltGrandmother tells her granddaughter what she has done during the day-she washed the sheets ,she’d also sunned matrasses.
Grandmother asks a questions why a wet towel is heavy-childish. Describes her bones as tired. All this changes granddaughter’s perspectives of her grandmother.
Her eyes are full with tears when she thought that she would say only Salaam.The last lines-what
instead of who-emphasizes the neglected condition of the grandmother-not a person, but only a thing that was left lying between bedclothes.Slide28
Who is the speaker?
Grandmother
The meaning of Salaam is peace
It is used for greetings.
Two activities that grandmother does:
Washed the sheetsSunned the matrasses
The granddaughter’s attitude towards her grandmother:Doesn’t change through the poem
Stays the same through the poem
Changes but only slightlyChanges significantly towards the end of the poem.
The grandmother is alone during the most of the day
surrounded by people who visit her
is visited by her family regularly
is not a friendly personSlide29
Copy the words that tell us that the grandmother works hard during the day?Grandmother describes her bones’ such tired bones’ and also says that’ she has so much to do.’
The main message in the poem is..
We should visit our grandmothers more often
We should be kind to one another
We should respect old people
We should have closer relationships with the elder members of our familiesSlide30
What can we learn about grandmother’s mood?
She feels very tired(her bones are tired)
She also feels confused-she doesn’t understand why the wet towel is so heavy
We can assume that the poem takes place
At the end of the day
In the middle of the day
While the grandmother has finished
doingher daily choresSlide31
Post-Reading
Draw a picture that reflects one day of the grandmother’s life(based on the information from the poem).