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    1) The document is about a poem titled "A School Boy's Apology" which describes the hardships faced by children during the Vietnam War. Schools were often bombed and children had to move schools or have lessons after dark to avoid bombings. 2) The poem is from the perspective of a school boy apologizing for falling asleep in class or screaming, as he has no place to play due to the war. In the second stanza, he expresses his dreams of becoming a sailor or having an arena, but in the third stanza he sees guns and violence instead due to the war. 3) In the final stanza, he describes people running from the front

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    1) The document is about a poem titled "A School Boy's Apology" which describes the hardships faced by children during the Vietnam War. Schools were often bombed and children had to move schools or have lessons after dark to avoid bombings. 2) The poem is from the perspective of a school boy apologizing for falling asleep in class or screaming, as he has no place to play due to the war. In the second stanza, he expresses his dreams of becoming a sailor or having an arena, but in the third stanza he sees guns and violence instead due to the war. 3) In the final stanza, he describes people running from the front

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    A School Boy's Apology - Pana, Gerald M. BSSE 3301

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    1) The document is about a poem titled "A School Boy's Apology" which describes the hardships faced by children during the Vietnam War. Schools were often bombed and children had to move schools or have lessons after dark to avoid bombings. 2) The poem is from the perspective of a school boy apologizing for falling asleep in class or screaming, as he has no place to play due to the war. In the second stanza, he expresses his dreams of becoming a sailor or having an arena, but in the third stanza he sees guns and violence instead due to the war. 3) In the final stanza, he describes people running from the front

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    A SCHOOL BOY’S APOLOGY

    BY LE THANH HUAN
    OBJECTIVES

    1. Enumerate the effects of phenomena to students.


    2. Point out devices that make a poem appreciative.
    3. Create a poem based on experience
    HISTORY: CHILDREN DURING THE WAR

    • During the war years life for children was very hard, in both the
    North and South of Vietnam. Houses and schools were bombed and
    destroyed. Many children became homeless and their schools have to
    be moved around or lessons have to take place after dark to avoid
    being targeted by heavy bombings. For example, one school in a
    liberated area in the South had to move site three times in four
    months due to the American air raids. Wherever they stopped,
    teachers and pupils built bamboo and palm leaf cottages in forests as
    their school.
    I

    If sometimes I fall asleep in a lecture


    Or shout and scream as if alone
    Please forgive me, please don’t be angry
    For I have no place to play.

    • What is the persona in the poem


    apologizing? Is it a proper act?
    II

    I’m growing up I want to be sailor


    I’m wishing for a giant arena, a stream
    I feel like yelling my life is beginning
    Every minute I want to hold tight to my dreams.

    • What does the second stanza tell


    about the persona?
    III

    But the fires of war have shriveled my joys


    At every step I see guns turned on me
    At every word I hear the crash of steel
    Not believing, not understanding I only stare.
    The slaughter goes on and on, • What does the use of the word ‘but’
    at the start of stanza three suggest?
    Blood and bones and hatred all strained red.
    • What does this stanza three tell
    about the persona?
    IV

    People running from the front to look out for themselves


    Cheating, lying, stabbing others in the back
    Some of my friends have fallen.
    No one knew, no one cared, they were dewdrops that’s all.
    May home will be bunt to the ground
    The way back cut off, partitioned
    VALUING

    • With the persona’s situation in class, many Filipino classmates might


    laugh at this boy or bully him. How would you react in this situation?
    • If you were a foreign teacher in Vietnam, knowing there was war in the
    country, what preparation would you do before facing your students?
    ELEMENTS OF POETRY

    • Pick out sound devices in the piece. Tell how each help understands the
    poem.
    • How effective are the imagery in the piece?
    • What are used by the author to touch the reader’s emotions?
    POETRY TYPE

    • What poetry type is A School Boy’s Apology? Why is it so?


    THANK YOU!

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