Poetry Study
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Read the following poetry selections from your literature book and complete the required activities on notebook
paper in the order below. Complete all questions in complete sentences.
1. Read The Courage That My Mother Had by Edna
St. Vincent Millay on page 136.
a. Answer these questions:
i. What did the speaker admire
most about her mother?
ii. What do you admire most
about your own mother?
iii. Identify one simile and one
metaphor in this poem. Label
each one.
2. Read To Young Readers by Gwendolyn Brooks
on page 159.
a. Answer question #2 on page 160.
b. Complete the writing activity at the
bottom of page 160.
3. Read 4 Haiku: Seasons by various authors and
the background information on Haiku on pages
236-238.
a. Answer the following question:
i. Why are the syllables
“incorrect?”
b. Answer comprehension questions #1, 2,
3, 4, 5, and 6 on page 238.
4. Read Mad by Naomi Shihab Nye on page 332.
a. Answer the following questions:
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i. Identify one hyperbole in this
poem.
ii. Is this poem written in a rhyme
scheme or in free verse?
b. Answer questions #2, 3, 4, and 6.
Read Dreamers by Eloise Greenfield on page
378.
a. Answer comprehension questions #4
and 5 on page 380.
b. Answer literary questions #1, 3, 4, and 5
on page 381.
Read Whatif and Jimmy Jet and His TV Set by
Shel Silverstein on page 393.
a. Answer questions #1, 2, 3, and 5.
b. Answer questions #1 and 4 on page
393.
Read Good Luck Gold by Janet S. Wong on page
403.
a. Answer questions # 3 and 4.
Read The Sidewalk Racer by Lillian Morrison and
Alone in the Nets by Arnold Adoff.
a. Answer questions #1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
b. Complete the writing activity.
Complete the Poetry Mock Quiz on pages 436 –
439.