PA # 3 Pages 347-350, Margin questions and Page 351 1-7

Haiku
Matsuo Basho
An old silent pond
A frog jumps into the pond.
Splash! Silence again.

The Sidewalk Racer or

On the Skateboard
Lillian Morrison
Skimming
an asphalt sea
I swerve, I curve, I
sway, I speed to whirring
sound an inch above the
ground; Im the sailor
and the sail, Im the
driver and the wheel
Im the one and only
single engine
human auto
mobile

Limerick

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Anonymous
There was a young named Hall,
Who fell in the spring in the fall;
Twould have been a sad thing
If hed died in the spring
But he didnt he died in the fall

P. 351 Questions:
Literary Analysis
1. Paraphrase (A) Paraphrase the haiku in your own words.
(B) How does paraphrasing the haiku help you clarify your
understanding of the poems main idea? (C) How does the
line length impact the meaning of the haiku?
2. Paraphrase: Paraphrase lines 6-12 of The Sidewalk Racer.
3. Paraphrase: Review Concrete Cat. Then write a sentence
in which you use your own words to restate the meaning of
the poem.
Craft and Structure
4. Forms of Poetry: (A) What image appears in each line of
the haiku? Record answers in a chart like this
Haiku
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
5. Forms of Poetry: Would Concrete Cat be more or less
effective if it were written in a different shape? Explain
Interpretation of Knowledge and Ideas
6. (A) Interpret: Which words and phrases help show the
motion in The Sidewalk Racer? (b) Analyze: How can the
speaker be both the sailor and the sail? (C) Assess: Which
image do you think most successfully conveys the sense of
being on a skateboard?
7. (A) What incident does the limerick describe? (B) How does
the double meanings of spring and fall add to the humor in
the limerick? (C) Speculate: Do you think it would be
possible to write a serious limerick? Explain.

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8. Do we need words to communicate well? (A) The

poems in this collection use few words to convey meaning.
How is the form of the poem as much a part of the meaning
as the words of the poem? (B) Analyze: Can you separate
the form from the meaning in any of these poems? Explain.
(C) Draw conclusions: Are poems more effective when
they are longer and use more words? Explain, using
evidence from the poems you have already read.