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Check your Understanding
Questioning the Text: Using the Key Ideas and Details questions as a model, ask a question about the text of the poem. Begin your question with why or how. You may know the answer to the question, but you should think the answer might be important to understanding the meaning of the poem.
Synthesizing your Understanding
Reread the poem and underline sentences that you believe express important ideas or attitudes. Share and discuss these sentences as a class. Then, work with your teacher and classmates to respond to the questions below about shifts, attitudes, and theme.
1. What shifts can you identify in the poem? Record each line number at which you believe a shift occurs, and describe what kind of shift is occurring.
2. What attitudes can you identify in this poem? What evidence helps you identify these attitudes, or tones?
3. What themes can you identify in this poem? What evidence helps you identify these themes?
Writing Prompt: Using textual evidence to support your thinking, summarize one key theme of this poem. Be sure to
• Write a topic sentence that identifies the poem’s theme.
• Choose several pieces of appropriate textual evidence.
• Explain the significance of your textual evidence in the development of the theme.
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