📖 Vocation – Rabindranath Tagore
🎯 MLO’s
1. Understand the child’s wishes in the poem.
2. Learn new words and meanings.
3. Identify literary devices.
4. Relate the poem to their own dreams.
🌍 SDG
• SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
• SDG 4: Quality Education
• SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
🎭 Tone of the Poem
• Innocent & Naive – reflects a child’s simple desires.
• Curious & Imaginative – longing to experience the life of others.
• Yearning – wishing for freedom from restrictions.
✨ Literary Devices
1. Imagery – creates clear pictures (gardener digging, hawker selling).
2. Repetition – “I wish I were…” shows longing.
3. Symbolism – gardener, hawker, and watchman = freedom and independence.
4. Tone – innocent and dreamy.
🆕 New Words with Meanings
1. Hawker – person selling goods on the street.
2. Digging – making holes in the ground.
3. Tramp – heavy footsteps.
4. Crystal – clear and bright.
5. Shining – glowing with brightness.
Make sentences
1. Hawkers
2. Swings
3. Watchman
✏️Hook Activity (In Copy)
Instruction:
Complete this sentence in your copy:
👉 “If I could choose any job for one day, I would like to be a ________ because ________.”
(Example: If I could choose any job for one day, I would like to be a teacher because I enjoy
helping others learn.)
📌 Reference to Context (RTC) with Answers
Extract 1:
“When the gong sounds ten in the morning
and I walk to school by our lane,
Every day I meet the hawker crying,
‘Bangles, crystal bangles!’ ”
Q1. Who is the speaker of these lines?
👉 The speaker is a young child going to school.
Q2. What does the hawker sell?
👉 The hawker sells bangles.
Q3.Why does the child wish to be like the hawker?
👉 The child wish to be like the hawker because the hawker moves about freely without
anyone scolding or controlling him.
What does this show about the child’s attitude towards his own routine?
👉 It shows that the child feels his own routine is strict and controlled, so he dreams of a life
with more independence and choice.
Extract 2:
“When at four in the afternoon I come back from the school,
I can see through the gate of that house
the gardener digging the ground.”
Q1. What is the gardener doing?
👉 The gardener is digging the ground.
Q2. What does the gardener symbolize for the child?
👉 For the child, the gardener symbolizes freedom, strength, and the joy of doing work
without being controlled.
Q3. Which time of the day is mentioned here?
👉 Four in the afternoon, when the child returns from school.
💡 HOTS (Easy, Student-Friendly)
Q1. Do you think the child understands the hard work of the people he admires? Why or why
not?
👉 No, the child only sees their freedom and fun but does not understand the difficulties of
their jobs.
Q2. If you were the child in the poem, which person would you like to be and why?
I would like to be the gardener because I enjoy being outdoors and working with nature.
(Students can give their own answers here, like hawker or watchman, with reasons.)
