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Grade 9-Freud

Health 9

Activity 1

A. Read the poem below and answer the following guide questions.

Warned
By: Sylvia Stults

The sands of time have rendered fear

Blue skies on high no longer clear
Stars were bright whence they came
Now dimmed, obscured, pollution's haze

Crystal clear our waters gleamed

Fish abundant, rivers streamed
Ocean floors sandy white
Now littered, brown, pollution's plight

Trees towered high above

Trunks baring professed love
Birds chirping from sites unseen
Gone, paper joined pollution's team

One can't blame pollution alone

As they say, you reap what you've sown
So let us plant a better seed
Tear out old roots, cultivate, weed

Protect what has been given for free

Our waters, skies, wildlife and trees
For once they're gone, don't you say
Consider yourself warned of that fatal day

Guide Questions:

1. What happened to the environment as being described by the author? Write your answer by
completing the table below.

Stanza No. Before After

1. Blue skies
2. Water, fish and ocean
floor
3. Trees, trunks and birds

2. Based on the poem shared by the author in stanzas 1 to 4, what is the main cause of these
changes or harmful effect in our environment?

3. In stanza 5, what are the resources in the environment that are given to us free and thus, need
protection.
B. Write a paragraph of your reflection that will define your community and the
environment where you live in.

I understand that

I realized that