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warren pryor
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This is a one week unit for use by Teachers who have at least four computers in their classroom. Procedure: Separate the class into four groups with no more than 8 students per group. Students in each group should then work in pairs. Each group is given an activity which they will work on in class and it must be completed for homework. The groups will rotate each day so at the end of the week they will have completed all activities. DAY ONE: Introduce the following poems "Warren Pryor" by Alder Nowland and "The Average" by W.H. Auden. Discuss the meaning of the poems with the students or have the students discuss the poems in their groups. Warren Pryor The Average When every pencil meant a sacrifice His peasant parents killed themselves with toil his parents boarded him at school in town, to let their darling leave a stingy soil slaving to free him from the stonyfields, For any of those smart professions which the meagre acreage that bore them down. Encourage shallow breathing, and grow rich. They blushed with pride when, at his graduation, The pressure of their fond ambition made they watched him picking up the slender scroll, Their shy and country-loving child afraid his passport from the years of brutal toil No sensible career was good enough and lonely patience in a barren hole. Only a hero could deserve such love. When he went in the bank their cups ran over So here he was without maps or supplies They marvelled how he wore a milk-white shirt A hundred miles from any decent town; work days and jeans on Sundays.He was saved The desert glared into his blood-shot eyes from their thistle-strewn farm and its red dirt.
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