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Crumbs Don’t eat any more food in your room, Mother said. You’ll get more bugs.
bug insekt
They depend on people like you.
starve sulte
Otherwise, they would starve.
offer tilbyde
But who do you want to make happy, your mother or a bunch of ants? What have they done for you? Nothing. They have no feelings. They’ll eat your candy. Yet you treat them better than you treat me. You keep feeding them. But you never offer me anything.
Suggestion Let the students write a short poem about something trivial that ends in catastrophe. Starting points can be not tying their shoelace, not drinking their milk, leaving the television on, oversleeping, etc. They can print out their poems, decorate them with colours and illustrations and display them in the classroom.
Suggestion Let the students record a recital of the poems digitally.
UNDERSTANDING 20 Work with the poems a) What are these poems about? Point to examples from the two texts and describe what they are about.
Suggestion Task 20c Let the students choose whether to draw the comic strip by hand or use one of the comic strip tools. Ask them to display their comic strips in class.
b) Reread the comments the mother makes to her child. Why do you think she acts this way? How would you describe her? Write at least three sentences. and use examples from the poem. c) Choose one of the poems and draw a comic strip of four to six frames. Include wording from the poem. You could also add your own comments or headings for each frame. d) Which of the poems do you like best? Give reasons for your opinion.
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