The document discusses exploring the theme of poverty in the poem "blessing" through an entry task and questions. It analyzes how the poem makes the reader feel like they are in the slum with the children experiencing their thirst. The poem uses powerful words that present images of a population of 700,000 people in a dirty slum with too many poor people, where the municipal water pipe has burst and children are naked, showing they lack money for clothes.

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2. Lo: to explore the
theme of poverty
in blessing
• Entry task:
I think I everyone takes everything for
granted. We underestimate the value of life
and the existence of everything we use in
our daily life.
Humans need homes, warmth, water, food
I think I would feel Angry, upset because we
would die and who would be left alive?
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3. Questions
• Poplutation of 700,000
• Dirty
• Too many poor people
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4. Poem- blessing
The poem makes you
feel like your there right
now in that slum
looking at the children
and feeling of the thirst
of the people there
The words chosen
presents a powerful
image because of the
way she also talks
about the water

5. • There is never enough water
• And naked children
• The municipal pipe burst
And naked children
Naked shows that they don’t have enough money for clothes