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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

CLASS 7 – ENGLISH LESSON NOTES

MODULE – 8

CH 2 – ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET

INTRODUCTION:

Try these:

Visualise an earthworm crawling on your feet!!
Imagine a butterfly on your finger!!
Visualise a grasshopper on your shoulder!!

How do you feel? Connect & reflect: We are going to talk about:

• NATURE
• SEASONS
STORIES • INSECTS AND BIRDS

• JOHN KEATS
ABOUT THE • NATURE POET
AUTHOR

Before we begin, let’s understand a little:

•John Keats finds nature beautiful in all seasons without excluding the hot
1. summer and cold winter.

•The poem 'On the Grasshopper and Cricket' is a symbolic poem.
2.

•Here, the grasshopper is a symbol of hot summer and the cricket is of very cold
3. winter.

 Now let’s Read the poem and relate: (Page 11 & 12, first 4 lines) (Reading
Activity)
 While you read please do the following:
 Underline the difficult words & check with the dictionary
 Underline the rhyming words & note down in your CW Notebook
 “The poetry of earth … about the new-mown mead”
 What does the poet mean by ‘Faint’ with reference to the birds?
 “…A voice will run…” – what is the poet trying to express?