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    Poetry From Different Cultures: Starter

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    This document explores the poem "Blessing" by Imtiaz Dharker. It begins with prompts for students to think about things they are grateful for and explains the context that Dharker feels there is never enough water. It then shares excerpted lines from the poem describing naked children in the sun and the small splash of water. Students are tasked with completing a table analyzing images from the poem and their effects. Finally, students are asked to work in pairs to create a diagram of things taken for granted in the Western world, with an example given of water.

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    This document explores the poem "Blessing" by Imtiaz Dharker. It begins with prompts for students to think about things they are grateful for and explains the context that Dharker feels there is never enough water. It then shares excerpted lines from the poem describing naked children in the sun and the small splash of water. Students are tasked with completing a table analyzing images from the poem and their effects. Finally, students are asked to work in pairs to create a diagram of things taken for granted in the Western world, with an example given of water.

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    This document explores the poem "Blessing" by Imtiaz Dharker. It begins with prompts for students to think about things they are grateful for and explains the context that Dharker feels there is never enough water. It then shares excerpted lines from the poem describing naked children in the sun and the small splash of water. Students are tasked with completing a table analyzing images from the poem and their effects. Finally, students are asked to work in pairs to create a diagram of things taken for granted in the Western world, with an example given of water.

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    Poetry From Different Cultures: Starter

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    Koulla Theodoulou
    This document explores the poem "Blessing" by Imtiaz Dharker. It begins with prompts for students to think about things they are grateful for and explains the context that Dharker feels there is never enough water. It then shares excerpted lines from the poem describing naked children in the sun and the small splash of water. Students are tasked with completing a table analyzing images from the poem and their effects. Finally, students are asked to work in pairs to create a diagram of things taken for granted in the Western world, with an example given of water.

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    Poetry from Different Cultures

    L/O: Can I explore the imagery in Imtiaz Dharker's Blessing?

    Starter:
    Create a list of things for which you are grateful.
    Example:
    1. My Friends
    2. My iPhone
    3.
    4.
    5.

    Fancy a challenge?
    Choose the thing you consider to be the most important to you
    and explain why.
    Complete the following sentence:

    There is never enough ..............................

    But Imtiaz Dharker informs us that she feels there is never enough …
    Read Imtiaz Dharker's Blessing:

    The skin cracks like a pod. and naked children


    There never is enough water. screaming in the liquid sun,
    their highlights polished to perfection,
    Imagine the drip of it, flashing light,
    the small splash, echo as the blessing sings
    in a tin mug, over their small bones.
    the voice of a kindly god.

    Sometimes, the sudden rush


    of fortune. The municipal pipe bursts,
    silver crashes to the ground
    and the flow has found
    a roar of tongues. From the huts,
    a congregation : every man woman
    child for streets around
    butts in, with pots,
    brass, copper, aluminium,
    plastic buckets,
    frantic hands,
    Task: Complete the table below. You can work with the person next to you
    if you wish, but you must fill in your own sheet.

    IMAGE EFFECT
    The skin cracks like a pod

    The voice of a kindly god

    The sudden rush of fortune

    Silver crashes to the ground

    A roar of tongues

    Frantic hands

    The liquid sun


    Their highlights polished to perfection
    Plenary
    In pairs, create a spider-diagram of the things which
    you think we take for granted in the Western world.

    Water

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