posted Jul 13, 2016, 6:37 AM by Linsey Rose
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updated Jul 13, 2016, 7:51 AM
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Answer each short answer question on a separate sheet of paper. | 1.Choose one theme: hope, difference, belonging, or friendship. Trace its development through the novel so far.
| 2.What does it take for the kids to warm up to Jesus Boy? What do you think of this plot development?
| Choose one writing prompt. Respond in a three to five paragraph essay. | 3.Frannie and Sean play a game where they have to describe a word in a way that you can hear it. (p. 53) Choose a word randomly from the Dictionary. Then, write paragraphs that makes the reader hear the word.
| 4.Reflect on the lessons that your family has tried to teach you. Write down a list of lessons and who told them to you. Which are the most important to you? Which lessons do you try to live by? | Answer the questions about the poem by Emily Dickenson. | God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me, I dare not eat it, though I starve— My poignant luxury To own it, touch it, prove the feat That made the pellet mine— Too happy in my sparrow chance For ampler coveting.
It might be famine all around, I could not miss an ear, Such plenty smiles upon my board, My garner shows so fair. I wonder how the rich may feel— An Indianman—an Earl? I deem that I with but a crumb Am sovereign of them all.
| 5. How does Dickenson use language to impact the reader in this poem?
| 6. What is a “sparrow chance”?
| 7. What is this poem about? What is the message for the reader? |
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