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Prayer before growing up

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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Prayer before growing up

To use Macneice's poem as a writing stimulus
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Task: Look at 'Prayer Before Birth'. List the rules for this poem as commands, e.g. 'Repeat "I am not yet born" at the beginning of each stanza.

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Main Task: In your big books, write your own version of 'Prayer Before Birth' about growing up. Put in your fears and the things you find beautiful where appropriate.

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Plenary: What sort of view of the adult world does the speaker in the poem have?

Do you share this view? Why/Why not?

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