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Question
Read aloud a paragraph of your choice from the passage.
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Solution
Gautama was a prince who lived in a beautiful palace. He had everything he could wish for—fine clothes, delicious food, and servants to care for him. Yet, he was not happy. One day, he left the palace to see the world outside. What he saw changed his life forever.
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- An Octave
The first part comprising eight lines. - A sestet
The second part comprising six lines.
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This is a Petrarchan Sonnet. Complete the given table by giving examples from the poem.
| Features | Examples / Lines |
| Objects used | |
| Praise/blames | |
| Metaphor | |
| Simile | |
| Personification | |
| Number of lines | |
| Rhyme scheme |
Write a short monologue using one of the following ideas. Write down the monologue and present it in the class.
Yonamine’s father worrying about getting her married.
Think and answer:
Why are the sights said to ‘fly’?
Who baked the homemade cookies?
Write the name of the toy against the picture.
‘They’ descended on the sweet and toy-vendors’ stores like an army moving to attack.
Who does they refer to? Did they move one by one in a line or in a big group?
Tackling the Issues
Ask the class to discuss solutions to an issue that plagues contemporary society at large or just your community—for example, homelessness, violence, environmental degradation, hunger.
Half the class should mention idealistic solutions to the chosen issue; the other half should mention only realistic approaches to solving the problem.
See if, in listening to both sides, someone can come up with a proposal that is both realistic and unconventional—an idea that hasn't been tried yet.
