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Night Mail

Night Mail. By W.H. Auden. What we Teach…. Courses: English. Class Level: Middle School. Location: Sri Venkateshwar International School Dwarka - New Delhi. Our Lesson.

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Night Mail

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  1. Night Mail By W.H. Auden

  2. What we Teach… Courses: • English Class Level: Middle School Location: Sri Venkateshwar International School Dwarka- New Delhi

  3. Our Lesson Students will synthesize the information into a coherent, concise, and defendable position that they will publish on a web site.Students will include a survey form on their site to collect responses pertaining to the position they take and will publish the results at a later date on their site.

  4. Targeted Learning Objectives Students will understand the importance of trains in delivering mails.Students will understand the importance of various means of communication

  5. Essential Question: What are the various means of communication that you use? Unit Question Has it changed with time ? Content Questions What are the different types of letters the Night mail carries? Contrast the scenery traversed by the mail in first and second stanza. Why do people wait eagerly for the Night mail? Our Curriculum Framing Questions

  6. Steam Engine chugging

  7. This is the Night Mail crossing the border,Bringing the cheque and the postal order,Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,The shop at the corner and the girl next door.Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb:The gradient's against her, but she's on time

  8. Thro' sparse counties she rampages,Her driver's eye upon the gauges.Panting up past lonely farmsFed by the fireman's restless arms.Striding forward along the railsThro' southern uplands with northern mails.

  9. Moors of England

  10. Winding up the valley to the watershed,Thro' the heather and the weather and the dawn overhead.Past cotton-grass and moorland boulderShovelling white steam over her shoulder,Snorting noisily as she passesSilent miles of wind-bent grasses. Birds turn their heads as she approaches,Stare from the bushes at her blank-faced coaches.Sheepdogs cannot turn her course;They slumber on with paws across.In the farm she passes no one wakes,But a jug in the bedroom gently shakes

  11. Glasgow

  12. Dawn freshens, the climb is done.Down towards Glasgow she descendsTowards the steam tugs yelping down the glade of cranes,Towards the fields of apparatus, the furnacesSet on the dark plain like gigantic chessmen.All Scotland waits for her:In the dark glens, beside the pale-green sea lochsMen long for news.

  13. Letters of thanks, letters from banks,Letters of joy from the girl and the boy,Receipted bills and invitationsTo inspect new stock or visit relations,And applications for situationsAnd timid lovers' declarationsAnd gossip, gossip from all the nations,News circumstantial, news financial,Letters with holiday snaps to enlarge in,Letters with faces scrawled in the margin,Letters from uncles, cousins, and aunts,

  14. Letters to Scotland from the South of France,Letters of condolence to Highlands and LowlandsNotes from overseas to HebridesWritten on paper of every hue,The pink, the violet, the white and the blue,The chatty, the catty, the boring, adoring,The cold and official and the heart's outpouring,Clever, stupid, short and long,The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong

  15. Thousands are still asleepDreaming of terrifying monsters,Or of friendly tea beside the band at Cranston's or Crawford's:Asleep in working Glasgow, asleep in well-set Edinburgh,Asleep in granite Aberdeen,

  16. They continue their dreams,And shall wake soon and long for letters,And none will hear the postman's knockWithout a quickening of the heart,For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

  17. Bibliography www.google.com Macmillan Literature Reader 6

  18. Project Make a multimedia presentation on various means of communication used by us.

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