The Day the Bulldozers

Came

DAVID ORME
 STARTER ( 5 MINUTES)
• Each member of the group takes turns to
write down as many words as they remember
on the paper/mini whiteboard given before
the music stops .
The day the bulldozers came
Rooks were building
Crazy egg baskets in the oaks;
Green flies sizzled by the pond
And a cold-eyed toad
Waited for them.

The day the bulldozers came

Squirrels were scattering
Up tree trunks,
And leapt from branches
That were hardly there.

The fox
Stirred in his sleep
As the ground trembled.
‘Ha ha’ he thought,
‘I’m quite safe,
Deep down in the Earth,
No one can get me here.’
Then the bulldozers came.
 ACTIVITY 1 (5 MINUTES)
• RECITING THE POEM
 ACTIVITY 2 (20 MINUTES)
INTERPRETING THE POEM
ACTIVITY 3 (10 MINUTES)
4 STRAY 1 STAY
ACTIVITY 4 (5 MINUTES)
GALLERY WALK
 THEMES:
Deforestration is destructive
Development affects environment
Progress affects forest
Machines versus nature
 MORAL LESSONS:
We should preserve our forest
Be kind and protect the animals
Love nature
Save our environment
Imagine that you are a friend to the fox.
Write a short note to inform him that he
should be worried about the day the
bulldozers comes.
In your note, give a suggestion on what the
fox should do.
Stick the note in the parking lot section.