Brian Bilston

Refugees by Brian Bilston

They have no need of our help

So do not tell me

These haggard faces could belong to you or me

Should life have dealt a different hand

We need to see them for who they really are

Chancers and scroungers

Layabouts and loungers

With bombs up their sleeves

Cut-throats and thieves

They are not

Welcome here

We should make them

Go back to where they came from

They cannot

Share our food

Share our homes

Share our countries

Instead let us

Build a wall to keep them out

It is not okay to say

These are people just like us

A place should only belong to those who are born there

Do not be so stupid to think that

The world can be looked at another way

This poem is a very powerful poem. Do you agree or disagree? Why?

Yes because it's negative and it's keeping other people from their country, only the people that were born there can stay in that country. There's a hidden message in 2 ways when you read this. 

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Some people will disagree with this poem. Why do you think?

Because in this poem it talks about negative things about people and only people that were born in that country can live there. 

Why do you think Brian Bilston wrote this poem?

To tell people to stop entering their country and saying only people that were born there can live there because that's their own country. 

Who is the target audience for this poem?

It's the people that are starting drama, but they don’t know the hidden message while they’re reading the poem Brian Bilston made. 

If you could choose the most powerful line in this poem, what would it be and why?

The world can be looked at another way, I choose this line of the poem because the world can be looked another way for many reasons. 

What do you think of when you hear the word refugee?

Something happened to a family, which means they had to leave their home country and move to another country. 

What are refugees?

A family leaving their home country to live somewhere else.

Find out some stories about refugees around the world. Create a DLO to teach others about your findings. Examples - Syrian refugees, Afghanistan, Somalia, Kosovo…

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This is the 3rd activity I've done for reading today, this is about responding to the text, like reading the poem that Brian Bilston wrote about other people entering his country and responding to the questions we got given, and needed to make 2 DLO's that were given in this text. This was fun to do and learning the hidden messages behind the poem, hope you enjoy this DLO. :)