Maharashtra Board Class 9 English Unit Three Chapter 3.1 Silver PDF Download

Silver

Warming Up

Imagine that your class has to be divided into groups or houses. Each house will have their own colour, symbol/emblem, motto, dress code, a common room with objects of their interest and suitable furniture. Think of sets of four names for the groups. Form groups and work out the (imaginary) details for each set. Some suggestions are: Neem – Colour, yellow; Symbol, the sun; Motto, 'Health is wealth'; Dress code, yellow waist belt; etc. Cane furniture, green and yellow curtains and herbariums in the common room.

Teacher's Note

This activity helps students work together as a team. In your school, different houses like Tagore House or Gandhi House also have their own colours and symbols.

Exam Trick

Remember the four things each group needs: colour, symbol, motto, and dress code. You can remember this as CSMD.

Points to Remember

Each group needs a special colour and symbol.
A motto is a short sentence that shows what the group believes in.
A dress code is special clothes that show which group you belong to.
A common room is where all group members can sit and talk together.

Read the lines of the following poem. Guess and fill in suitable words to make the lines rhyme.

Golden Glow

Soon after dawn, rises the ______________________ ;

It wakes and enlivens every ______________________ .

It scares away the long, dark ______________________ .

The shining stars go out of ______________________ .

From tree to tree birds flit and ______________________ ,

Searching for food, with a sharp ______________________ .

The buds that open now show their ______________________ ,

As flowers they dance with beauty and ______________________ .

The hill slope wears a grassy green ______________________ ,

The curved sparkling river, it gold ______________________ .

The cock then crows to give a loud ______________________ ,

Come on! wake up, folks! One and ______________________ .

I, then wake up, 'Good Morning' to ______________________ ,

Let's all look forward to a golden ______________________ .

Teacher's Note

This poem shows how beautiful the morning looks. In India, many people wake up early to see the sunrise and feel fresh.

Exam Trick

Look at the last word of each line to find what word will rhyme with it. Words that rhyme sound the same at the end.

Points to Remember

A rhyming poem has words that sound the same at the end of lines.
The sun rises in the morning and brings light.
Many animals wake up when the sun comes up.
The poem shows how nature changes in the morning.

English Workshop

If you were asked to draw a detailed picture of the scene described in the poem, what object, animals, natural features etc. will you show in the picture? Make a list.

Write the rhyming words and the rhyme scheme of the poem. (See the 'Language Study' pages given at the end.)

Underline the word silver/silvery in the poem. In which lines does it occur? What pattern does it show?

Can you think of a parallel scene of dawn or evening when everything is steeped in golden light?

The same landscape appears different at different times. What message can we draw from this?

Read: 'The Listeners' and 'Someone' – poems by Walter de la Mare.

Silver

Slowly, silently, now the moon

Walks the night in her silver shoon;

This way, and that, she peers, and sees

Silver fruit upon silver trees;

One by one the casements catch

Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;

Couched in his kennel, like a log,

With paws of silver sleeps the dog;

From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep

Of doves in silver feathered sleep

A harvest mouse goes scampering by,

With silver claws, and silver eye;

And moveless fish in the water gleam,

By silver reeds in a silver stream.

- Walter de la Mare

cote: small shelter for birds

moveless: still, motionless

shoon: shoes

Which of the objects, animals, etc. in the poem are at rest without any motion?

Teacher's Note

The word 'silver' appears many times in this poem to show how the moon makes everything look shiny and bright. Just like how the moon lights up the night sky in India.

Exam Trick

Count how many times the word 'silver' is used in the poem. This is called repetition and it helps make the poem more beautiful.

Points to Remember

The poem is about the moon and how it lights up the night.
The word 'silver' is used many times to describe shiny things.
The dog and fish are resting without moving.
The poem uses simple words to describe something beautiful.

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