Winning Words Lesson Guide (Adults) Junior Winnning Words Lesson Plan Guide | страница 6

Subjects: Language Arts/Social Studies/Art
The following questions can be used as oral or written comprehension in a Language
Arts class or as discussion prompts in Social Studies or Health & Family Life
Education (HFLE) classes.
1. How does the writer feel about vagrants?
2. How can you tell? Give one example.
3. How do you feel about vagrants?
4. Why does the author put quotation marks around the phrase ‘sights for sore eyes’?
5. What does a vagrant look like, according to the passage?
6. Do you think all vagrants look like this?
7. Why are the vagrant’s clothes ill fitting, according to this essay?
8. Why does he use rope?
9. Do vagrants wear shoes?
10. Why do a vagrant’s clothes become dirty so quickly?
11. State three habits of vagrants according to the author.
12. Why are vagrants in this situation according to the writer?
13. Do you know any vagrants? If so, tell his/her story. If not, imagine what might
lead someone to become a vagrant. Tell that story.
14. Do you think it could happen to you? What would you do?
15. Imagine that a vagrant wants to get a job. What might prevent him/her from doing
so? Where can a vagrant go to bathe and get clean clothes?
16. What services might a vagrant need to help get him/her back on their feet? See the
Barbados Vagrants & Homeless Society website or Facebook and then discuss.