CLASS: VI

SUBJECT: ENGLISH
Lesson 6: In Morning Dew

I Presentation/Prelude
A video on ‘In Morning Dew’ will be shown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no8aS5SSu7w

II Quotation
“Curiosity gives space for your mind to explore.”
III Pre reading activity/Warm up Activity
You become a scarecrow for a day. Draw yourself as a scarecrow and tell the
class what you see around you. You may write your thoughts in your notebook.
IV Vocabulary
Write the meaning, synonym, antonym and usage of the given words:
1. bother
meaning: worry or upset someone
synonym: disturb, intrude
antonym : comfort, console
usage

2. spry
meaning: alert
synonym: agile, brisk
antonym : lethargic, sluggish
usage

3. dribble
meaning: fall or drip in small quantities
synonym: seep, leak
 antonym : influx, inflow
usage

4. bolts
meaning: fastens something
synonym: locks, latches
antonym : opens, unlocks
usage

5. snuffs
meaning: puts out
synonym: smothers, douses
antonym : kindles, lights
usage

V Poetic Device
Personification
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something
non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
The poet personifies the  scarecrow and tells us how he can see and observe
everything going around him.

VI Answer the following questions:

a) What does the scarecrow do in the morning?
Answer: In the morning, the scarecrow spies on the monkeys and the
porcupine.

b) What does the scarecrow see?

Answer: The scarecrow sees everything around him except his own shadow.

c) What are the questions that bother him?

Answer: The scarecrow does not know how seasons come and go, which
season will come next and where seasons come from. These questions
bother him.

d) What does he know about the seasons?

Answer: The scarecrow knows that winter is freezing and summer is hot.

VII REFERENCE TO CONTEXT

‘Till the evening snuffs the fellow out.’
Q.1 Name the poem and the poet.
Answer : The poem is “In Morning Dew” and the poet is “Keki Daruwalla”.

Q.2 When does the shadow disappear?

Answer : The shadow disappears at sunset.

Q.3 What does the poet mean by the term ‘snuffs’ in the given line?
Answer : Puts out

VIII Home Work questions/ Follow up Task

‘Whether he sees the seasons come and go is a thing you and I may never
know.’
Q.1 Name the poem and the poet.
Q.2 Who is the speaker in the given line?
Q.3 Why will we never find out what the scarecrow notices?

IX Global question
Do you think it is good to be curious in life? Why or why not?
X Value Instilled
Importance of being alert to the things around us and also feeling free to know
about the things that we don’t know.
XI Post reading Activity
Imagine you are the scarecrow from the poem ‘In Morning Dew’. Now write a
paragraph describing your feelings as you stand in the field and watch the
world around you.
XII Art Integration
These days all the countries are focusing on sustainable agricultural practices.
Do some research on sustainable agriculture and present in the class.