A Prayer for Healing

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ENGSecondary Education

This lesson contains 25 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
• List the things to be done by us to contribute to peace and the conservation of nature.
• Listen to the audio of the poem and relate the poem to real life.
• Point out the importance of the verbs used in the poem.
• Make a speaking tree in the notebook listing the things to be done by us to contribute to peace and the conservation of nature.

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How humanity has caused damage to the environment? Quote an example to support your answer.

Slide 3 - Open question

It was blissful to see nature healing last year. What can we do in our daily lives to contribute to peace and the conservation of nature?

Slide 4 - Open question

POEM

A Prayer for Healing 

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Let's hear the poem 'A Prayer for Healing'.

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Did you enjoy the poem? What did you like most about the poem?

Slide 7 - Open question

Circle the verbs used in the prayer and signify their importance in the entire prayer.

Slide 8 - Open question

What does the poet ask us to do?

Slide 9 - Open question

Throughout the poem, we see that certain words are repeated in the poem. Identify those words and their significance. Which literary device has been used?

Slide 10 - Open question

The poet uses the words healing and renew. To heal is to make normal and healthy once again or to restore something to its former state after it has been damaged. To renew is to make something grow once again after it has been destroyed or lost. Both the words imply that damage has been done earlier. Describe the damage that man has done to the land, air, plants, etc. which are mentioned in the first to stanzas.

Slide 11 - Open question

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Home Fun
Make a speaking tree in your N.B, listing the things to be done by us to contribute to peace and the conservation of nature. 

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Now, I CAN:
• List the things to be done by us to contribute to peace and the conservation of nature.
• Point out the importance of the verbs used in the poem.
• Make a speaking tree in the notebook listing the things to be done by us to contribute to peace and the conservation of nature.
A
Agree
B
Strongly Agree
C
Can't Say
D
I need some help.

Slide 14 - Quiz

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EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
• Share their speaking trees with the classmates.
• Answer questions based on the poem.
• Relate to the theme of the poem.

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VOCAB ACTIVITY

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restore
refresh
renew the forests
celebrate
rejoice
recreate
promote
mystery
healing
renewal
to bring back
(something) to its
original or former
condition
: to make fresh
and pure again
to make the forests grow back (as if new)
 to show that
we value and appreciate
something
to express
happiness
to make it
better
to help to
develop
something not
understood
making whole
and healthy again
making new
again

Slide 18 - Drag question

‘We join with the earth and with each other’ means that _________
A
we are related to each other.
B
we agree to work together.
C
we should hold each other’s hands.
D
we live on the earth.

Slide 19 - Quiz

The words/phrases ‘to bring to new life’, ‘to restore’, ‘to refresh’ and ‘to
renew’ suggest that _________
A
we need to preserve and protect the environment.
B
we need to revive the environment.
C
we should be careful with the environment.
D
none of these

Slide 20 - Quiz

We join with the earth and with each other
To renew the forests
To care for the plants
To protect the creatures
What ‘creatures’ are being referred to?
A
ghosts and spirits
B
all types of animals, birds and insects
C
human beings who are dependent upon others
D
all of these

Slide 21 - Quiz

We join with the earth and with each other
To recreate the human community
To promote justice and peace
To remember our children.
‘To remember our children’ means that ____________
A
children will be adults in future.
B
parents love their children
C
we should leave behind for our children a better world.
D
naughty children can destroy peace.

Slide 22 - Quiz

What does the poet mean by the phrase ‘many and diverse expressions of one loving
mystery?’

Slide 23 - Open question

The words ‘celebrate and ‘rejoice’ are expressions of joy.
We celebrate the birth of a child because we are happy. We rejoice in the fact that free
and compulsory education is the right of every child now.
But why have these words been used in the context of the sea, sunlight and stars?

Slide 24 - Open question

HOME TASK 
Compose a short poem (of at least eight lines) related to the environment.

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