even past fifty

EVEN PAST FIFTY

SHANTA SHELKE

Fatigued – extremely tiredCatastrophes – a terrible event in which there is a lot of destruction , suffering or death

Wipe –to clean a surface by rubbing with cloth

Sword – a weapon with a long sharp metallic blade and a handguard

GLOSSARY

A word or expression that in literal usage denote one kind of thing to a distinctly different kind of thing

Eg : my love is a red red rose

Metaphor

How old is the women in the poem?

To what the house is compared ?

What is the childhood game for her?

Who is the “she” mentioned in the poem – a women or all women ?

Write in a paragraph the

household work your mother do at

home

My mother wakes up early in the morning. She bathes , lights the lamp and prays to god almighty. Then she enters the kitchen and starts preparing breakfast and lunch for us . She cleans house and washes clothes after leaving us to school. She prepares snacks and wait for our return from school , also help us with home work as well as in studies.

My Mother

Collect stories in which mother and children

plays main characters.

Assignment

Thank you