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Friday, April 9, 2021

Poll

How are you feeling after the first week of the 4th quarter?

After Apple-Picking

Multiple Choice

The poet, Robert Frost, uses strong imagery to help appeal to the reader's sense of touch. Which line best supports this idea?

• But I am done with apple-picking now, essence of winter sleep is on the night

• I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass.

• The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

• My instep arch not only keeps the ache, it keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.

Multiple Choice

From this poem, what can be inferred about the reason for the poet to end his apple picking?

• It had gotten too cold outside to stand on a ladder.

• He was getting tired from picking apples all day.

• He had picked all of the available apples in the trees.

• It was getting to windy for him to be on a ladder.

Multiple Choice

Based on your answer above, which line best supports your choice?

• I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend

• Apples I didn't pick up on some bough, but I am done with apple-picking now.

• Magnified apples appear and disappear, stem end and blossom end

• Essence of winter sleep is on the night, the scent of apples I am drowsing off.

Multiple Choice

What point of view is this poem written in?

• First Person point of view

• Third Person point of view

Open Ended

Give a piece of evidence to support your choice of point of view.

Multiple Select

Check the boxes that are found in a poem.

• lines

• paragraph

• rhyme

• stanzas

• meter

Multiple Choice

Use the context clues in this sentence to select the best meaning for the word "russest" in the poem.

Magnified apples appear and disappear, stem end and blossom end. And every fleck of russet showing clear.

• the blue sky

• a green leaf

• a wooden ladder

• a reddish color

Multiple Choice

What was the most likely purpose for writing this poem?

• The author wanted to persuade people to go apple picking instead of going to the store.

• The author wanted to reflect on his day spent in the apple orchard.

• The author wanted to inform the reader about the technique of correct apple picking.