A Teacher For All Seasons
Summary
The poem “A Teacher Dor All Seasons ” is written by Joanna Fuchs.This poem honours a teacher by listing the various roles she plays as a friend and guide to her students. The poet compares the various roles of the teacher to the four seasons, demonstrating how the teacher contributes to her students’ overall development.
The spring season heralds the birth of new plants. The teacher is like spring because she shields these new plants ( little children) from the elements of will guides them and nurtures them tenderly.
A teacher is like summer in that she is always pleasant. Her upbeat demeanour ensures that studying is enjoyable. Her teaching brings to life the vibrant colours and crispness of nature, and in this way, she is similar to fall.
A teacher is like winter because she ensures that her students are warm and comfortable in her presence, regardless of the difficulties that they may be experiencing. She also serves as a guide, sharing her knowledge and experience with them.
The poet thanks a teacher for being a truly perfect person, appropriate for all seasons and with a pleasant, encouraging attitude that wins hearts wherever she/he goes.
Paraphrase
In this poem, the poet expresses gratitude to a teacher for being a truly perfect person suitable for all seasons and with a pleasant encouraging attitude that wins hearts wherever she/he goes.
The poet compares the various roles of the teacher to the four seasons, showing us how the teacher contributes to the complete development of her students.
In the fourth stanza, the teacher is like winter because she makes sure that her students are comfortable and warm in her company despite any troubles that they may face outside. She guides them, offering them, all the benefits of her own experience.
Human life undergoes various changes: happiness, dullness failures and hardships For students teacher is the best guardian and a guide to pass these troublesome childhood days. A teacher is caring, motivating, warming and covering throughout a child’s life.
Questions and Answers
A. Write the answers
Q.1. What is this poem about?
Ans: The poem is all about a teacher and the significant role teachers play in the lives of students.
OR
This poem is about the teacher who is truly perfect person with a pleasant, encouraging attitude that wins heart wherever she goes.The teacher who is friendly and guides for the development of the students.
Q.2. What do these phrases from the poem mean?
a) Sunny temperament
b) a teacher for all seasons
Ans: (a) The phrase “sunny temperament” means that a teacher should always have sunny temperament. She must be a person overflowing with patience with every student, however bad he or she is. All students are not smart but all good teachers are bright and sunny like the sun not to burn, but to enlighten.
(b) The phrase “a teacher for all the seasons” means that the teacher plays a various roles during the various difficulties that the students face like the four seasons which undergoes various changes. Like the seasons teacher is caring, motivating,/warming and covering throughout the students life.
3. Pick out words from the poem.
Teacher.
A)Encourages.
B)Nurtures.
C) Helpful.
D) Pleasant.
Seasons
A) Spring.
B) Summer.
C) Fall(autumn)
D) Winter.
B. Complete this web diagram.
1)Helping.
2)Nurtures.
3)Guides.
4)Protects.
5)Motivating.
Enrichment activities.
A) Look at the chart and complete the sentence.
1) goes to work, on the bed.
2) goes to site.
3) home, have lunch.
4) prepares lessons, on the site.
5) cooks.
6) goes to bed.
