Many of the students forget, however a few examples are enough. Another way to begin the lesson is to bring in a number of photographs of your own from all stages of your life. I talk about how photographs sometimes tell us more about people by what they don't show than what they show. I pass a number of photographs around the room in the cooperative tables. Partners, or tables, look at the photos and comment on what they see as well as what they don't see.
Students brainstorm, with the teacher writing responses on the overhead.
Written down on the overhead is a record of things seen as well as unseen. Next the teacher puts the following poem on the overhead. Students will listen to the poem and brainstorm what is being directly shown in the poem and what is not. What can't be seen is the new life, the girl and all her hopes, the family about to be created, the love that is present. Next the teacher writes a poem on the overhead.