Synthesis Question: Write your explanation of how to write a synthesis here...
Ten facts about poverty
44%
55%
29
More than
6 out of 10 children
living in poverty are in
working families
on low incomes
Ch
43% 22%
1979. 2012
14% 27%
Timothy Winters'
Timothy Winters comes to school
With eyes as wide as a football-pool,
Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters:
A blitz of a boy is Timothy Winters.
His belly is white, his neck is dark,
And his hair is an exclamation-mark.
His clothes are enough to scare a crow
And through his britches the blue winds blow.
When teacher talks he won't hear a word
And he shoots down dead the arithmetic-bird,
He licks the pattern off his plate
And he's not even heard of the Welfare State.
Timothy Winters has bloody feet
And he lives in a house on Suez Street,
He sleeps in a sack on the kitchen floor
And they say there aren't boys like him anymore.
Old Man Winters likes his beer
And his missus ran off with a bombardier,
Grandma sits in the grate with a gin
And Timothy's dosed with an aspirin.
The welfare Worker lies awake
But the law's as tricky as a ten-foot snake,
So Timothy Winters drinks his cup
And slowly goes on growing up,
At Morning Prayers the Master helves (cries)
for children less fortunate than ourselves,
And the loudest response in the room is when
Timothy Winters roars "Amen!"
So come one angel, come on ten
Timothy Winters says "Amen
Amen amen amen amen."
Timothy Winters, Lord.
Children living
in low-income
households are
nearly three times as
kely to have mantar
health problems
as the more
affluent peers
you
40%
Using information from the poem and the graphic, write a synthesis of what life is like for a child in
poverty in the UK
Amen
Charles Causley