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Not My Business Starter
A poem by Niyi Osundare
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Pre-reading - class discussion:
A friend of yours gets into a fight. Do you help her/him? Do you walk away? Why?
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Pre-reading - class discussion:
You know that another pupil is being bullied. Do you report it? Do you ignore it? Why?
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Pre-reading - class discussion:
People in other countries are starving to death. Do you ignore it? Do you give money to help? Why?
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First Reading 1). What do the first four lines of stanzas 1 to 3 tell you about: The things that happen to people the speaker knows? The way the speaker feels about these things? 2). Who do you think the ‘they’ referred to in lines 1 and 8 might be? 3). What do the last three lines of stanzas 1 to 3 tell you about how the speaker chooses to react to these things?
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First Reading 4). What happens in the last stanza? How do you think the speaker feels now? 5). In what ways is Not my Business: about the lives of ordinary people? like a song? 6). What significant happenings does Niyi Osundare portray in Not my Business?
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