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Activities to teach Literature and English

1. Act it out

Students will be asked to read the poem aloud in unison. After reading the poem, selected students will be asked to come to the front of the class to take on the role of the mentioned characters in the poem and do a role play. The teacher will instruct the students as to what they are required to do and provide props and set up the area for the role play. One of the students will be the Carpenter at the bar, another student will be the man that the carpenter is speaking to and another student will be the Bartender, Miss Fergie. The student playing the carpenter will sit around a table beside the man he is talking to drinking rum from a glass, while Miss Fergie stands behind cleaning her bar table. After the role play activity, other students will be asked to summarize the poem based on the role play activity.

2. What is the main idea?

Students will be asked to state what themes are. Upon doing such, the teacher will ask the students to provide examples of themes. The teacher will do further explanation to clarify students’ understanding after which the students will be presented with the poem and then be asked to read the poem and identify the themes presented. The students will first identify the themes orally so that a guided classroom discussion can take place. After the classroom discussion, the students will be instructed to write about any three (3) themes in the poem justifying such themes with evidence from the poem.

3. What is my response?

Students will be asked to divide the class into three (3) groups. Each group will be presented with three (3) pictures depicting a story. From the pictures the groups will be instructed to pretend that the persons in the picture are father and son. They will then be instructed to create a scenario, telling what is happening between the man and the boy in the pictures presented. Each group will be allotted five (5) minutes to tell their scenario. Students will then be presented with the poem “My Papa’s Waltz”. The teacher and students will discuss the poem after reading it. The students will then, in their respective groups, find a song that portrays the mood in the poem. The groups will state their reasons for selecting the song and justify the reason for selecting such mood with evidence from the poem.

4. What qualifies the setting?

Students will be presented with a power point presentation showing information on the author of the book. The students will then view the cover of the text using a multimedia projector. The teacher will then ask questions such as why do they think that the book is set in Jamaica? Do they think that Robin Hill and River Bottom are names of places likely to be found in Jamaica? What other evidence from the text can they use to determine the setting? Does the language play a significant role in identifying where novel is set? Provide evidence to support this. After the discussion, the students will be instructed to write about at least five reasons why the author would choose Robin Hill and River Bottom as the setting of the book.

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