In this poem, a man talks about a job that he went on that involved him demolishing someones house. He talked about tearing up the floor, pulling out the bell, and even cutting down the rafters! Soon after doing all this he was informed that the house he was currently demolishing was not in fact the house he was supposed to do. The house he was supposed to take up was next door!! Needless to say he wasn't a forman anymore. This poem by Shel shows why it is important to know exactly what your doing before you do it. An activity that I thought a teacher could do with her students based off of this poem is to lead into a topic of important jobs people do in their community. The teacher could arrange for the children and herself to go on a walking field trip, if that works in your town, to go to the various different jobs that are done throughout their community. You could take them to the local fire house and have the fire men and women show your students the importance of their job and why it is important for them to know how to save children like them from fires. You could also take your students to the local police department. The police men and women could talk to the children about how important their job is to keep everyone safe in their community. These are just a couple of ideas of people like the forman in the poem that have to make sure what they are doing is the correct thing to do. You could explain to your students that maybe if the forman would have looked carefully at what he was doing then maybe he wouldn't have torn down the wrong house!
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