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Grandmother bridging

9. Bridging Text and Context: Choose ONE of the quotes below and explain how it
adds to your understanding of the poem "Grandmother." Write at least 25 words. (15
points)

(a) "No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special,
and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has
meaning."

The connection between the new text and “Grandmother” is that the grandmother feels
like she is alone, nobody sees her, she is old and useless. In ideal life she is supposed
to feel like she has a meaning and she has something to offer to the world.

(b) "Who are they, the people you pass by on the street, avoiding eye contact or not
even seeing? They are our aging friends. They are us. They feel like invisible people,
without the identity that defined them when they were younger."

"Here's one grandmother poem that really speaks to me- across the generations and across
cultures". (Sylvia Vardell)

Explain how the poem Grandmother is related to all cultures

"When people talk, you should always listen completely.


Most people never really listen" Ernest Hemingway.
Make a connection between the above quote and the poem. Give information from the poem to
support your answer.

In Pakistan, the grandparents, parents and children live together in the same house. The
children show great respect for their parents and grandparents.

Make a connection between the above information and the poem. Give information from the
poem to support your answer.
The poet was brought up in Pakistan where the custom is for the grandparents to live in the
family house and help with the chores in the house.

Sameeneeh respected her grandmother and saw her as a central figure in her own life

When Sameeneeh was eight she moved to Australia and there she was shocked to see the
different culture and the different way grandchildren and other members of the family related to
their grandparents. She could not believe that there are grandparents who live alone or are put
into old age homes and sometimes the children or grandchildren hardly visit them or care for
them.

Knowing all this- why do you think she wrote the poem.

3 stages:

1. Write the new information in my own words.


2. Find the relevant information in our text.
3. Write the connection

1. Sameeneeh lived in Pakistan where her grandmother lived with her and she was very
important to her. She moved to Australia and discovered a new culture where
grandparents don’t live with the rest of the family and she was shocked to see that they
sometimes don’t care about each other.
2. In the poem “grandmother” we see that the granddaughter doesn’t really care about her
grandmother, she doesn’t help her and her grandmother is lonely. This is like the poet’s
life in Australia.
3. And this is the connection between the new information and the poem.’

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