An Elementary School Classroom

in a Slum
-Stephen Spender

Introduction –
Pairwork-
Have you seen a classroom in a slum-area? What
does it look like?
Slum area
An Elementary school classroom in
a slum
• Students-
 Heaps of garbage
• THEIR LIFE ON SLAG HEAPS
What are the children’s faces
compared with?

Interview
Conduct an interview of slum area student who describes
his classmates.
 Decoration of classroom
• Contrast between the life of slum-area pupils
and outside world
• William Shakespeare

• prepared by-Mrs Neelima Limaye

• K.V.B.E.G.Pune
•
 CRITICISM ON THE PRESENT
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
• SCHOOL INSPECTOR-

What does the poet expect the authorities to do for

improvement of present system of education especially with
reference to slum area students?-class discussion