Blake uses the chimney sweepers to expose how society ignores suffering. Reflect on a time when you noticed someone being treated unfairly or saw a situation that didn’t seem right. How does this experience connect to the emotions or ideas expressed in one or both poems?

Prompt Response: I remember when my friend was telling me about a mutual friend of ours. He said that she was acting "weird" and "different". I told him to talk to her about it instead of talking about her behind her back. This connects to how the poem mistreats people because they don't know any better, and they use their naivety to their advantage to turn others away from them. It also connects to how children tend to be mistreated.


Summary: We read a William Blake poem about chimney sweepers and analyzed it.


Reflection: I learned about how children were mistreated in the past. I will use this to make sure I continue to fight for children's rights. 

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