PART A : POETRY - National Adult Literacy Database

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42 ASSIGNMENT FOR EXTRA EVALUATION If you wish to complete an extra project for evaluation, and your instructor agrees, you may wish to try one of the following. 1. Find a poem you like; prepare copies to share with your instructor or fellow students. * Read the poem aloud. * Paraphrase the poem. * Explain what the poem means (theme) to you. * What is your response to the poem Why did you choose it * Talk about the literary devices you found in the poem and how they work to increase the effectiveness of the message, if applicable. 2. Collect several poems by the same poet. Do you notice common themes in his/her poetry Do you like this poet’s work Why Find out about the poet’s life (biography) and prepare a brief summary of it. How can you relate (connect) the poet’s life to the poetry 3. Collect several poems on the same theme. Some popular themes in poetry are love, death, war, nature, religion. Compare the way that different poets approach the same theme. Which ones do you prefer Why 4. Collect several poems by modern Canadian poets. Write a brief commentary on each one (one or two paragraphs). Do you think that the poets have anything special to say about the Canadian way of life What details (theme, language, images, etc.) do the poems include which are specifically Canadian
43 PRE-TEST: ANSWER KEY ^ / ^ / ^ / ^ / 1. a About, / about, / in reel / and rout ^ / ^ / ^ / The death - / fires danced / at night. ^ / ^ / ^ / ^ / The wa / ter, like / a witch / es oils ^ / ^ / ^ / Burnt green / and blue / and white. ^ / ^ ^ / ^ / ^ ^ / ^ ^ / b. A bunch / of the boys / were whoop / ing it up / in the Mal / ^ / ^ / amute / saloon; ^ / ^ / ^ ^ / ^ / ^ / ^ ^ / c. The kid / that hand / les the mus / ic-box / was hit / ting a jag / ^ / -time tune; / ^ ^ / ^ ^ / ^ / ^ / ^ ^ / Back / of the bar, / in a so / lo game, / sat Dan / gerous Dan / ^ / McGrew, ^ / ^ ^ / ^ ^ / ^ / ^ / ^ ^ And watch / ing his luck / was his light- / o’-love, the lad / y that’s / ^ / known / as Lou. / ^ ^ / ^ ^ / ^ ^ / d. Rescue my / castle be / fore the hot day / ^ ^ / ^ ^ / ^ ^ / Brightens to / blue from its / silvery grey.
Page 1 and 2: ACADEMIC STUDIES ENGLISH Support Ma
Page 3 and 4: IAU-ENG 3.2 READING COMPREHENSION O
Page 5 and 6: NOTE TO FACILITATORS AND LEARNERS:
Page 7 and 8: 1 READING COMPREHENSION: POETRY INT
Page 9 and 10: 3 POETRY Poetry is a special form o
Page 11 and 12: This poem has a rhyme scheme of ABA
Page 13 and 14: 7 c / c / c / 3 “He thought he’
Page 15 and 16: 2. Chart the rhythms with stressed
Page 17 and 18: 11 The Plowman I heard the plowman
Page 19 and 20: 13 Blank verse is a form of poetry
Page 21 and 22: Other traditional folk ballads whic
Page 23 and 24: 17 Exercise IV Answer the questions
Page 25 and 26: 19 Cats doze and linger With patien
Page 27 and 28: 21 Kite I wish I were a kite on hig
Page 29 and 30: 23 Examples as blind as a bat as pa
Page 31 and 32: A. Look again at the poem “ Winte
Page 33 and 34: 27 Exercise VII Read the following
Page 35 and 36: 29 White spirits loosed from bonds
Page 37 and 38: 31 Birds, Bags, Bears, and Buns The
Page 39 and 40: 33 Exercise II A. He Who Binds to H
Page 41 and 42: C. First quatrain (lines 1 - 4) The
Page 43 and 44: Metaphor: The trees fling “their
Page 45 and 46: 39 POETRY PRE-TEST 1. Mark the rhyt
Page 47: 41 4 Though few flies wander his se
Page 51 and 52: 45 2. a) Metaphor Black swallows sw
Page 53 and 54: 47 d. This is a sonnet. It has 14 l
Page 55 and 56: 49 These books are not merely antho
Page 57 and 58: FEEDBACK PROCESS For feedback, plea

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