Sunday Morning Early/ IWIWAP

SME: Which words best help the reader understand the meaning of the word russet in line 8? 

• blue-black water 
• boats, grasses
• gold, sunburnt
• empty blue sky

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 SME: Read the following lines from the poem.
I say, “It’s Sunday, and here we are in the church of the out-of-doors.” By using this analogy, the poet emphasizes — 

• The speaker's authority as a parent
• the importance of spending time with family
• the speaker's emotional vulnerability
• the sacredness of nature

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SME: Which line best explains why the speaker begins to speak at the end of the poem but then stops? 

• A clap of thunder beyond those hills.
• it hits me that my daughter is a young woman
• the russet and gold of late summer's sunburnt grasses
• That's the trick in life- learning to leave well enough alone.

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CCSS.RL.K.1

SME: What does the poet mean by the lines “suddenly everything is a metaphor for how/short a time we are granted on earth”? 

• Nature often serves as a reminder that time does not stand still. 
• Time passes differently for different people.
  
• The future represents uncertainty. 
• Ordinary occurrences in nature cannot always be described. 

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IWIWAP: What is the primary purpose of paragraphs 1 and 11? 

• To show how the narrator’s viewpoint changes 
• To frame the story with the narrator’s primary conflict 
• To contrast the narrator’s opinion with Marge’s opinion 
• To highlight the resolution of the narrator’s conflict 

IWIWAP: Which sentence best supports the idea that the old couple is still in love after many years? 

• No, they were white, and you’ve never seen such a couple in your life—a man and his wife, and they must have been in their seventies. 
• Marge, he was lookin’ at her like every woman on earth dreams of bein’ looked at, and her eyes were doin’ the same thing back at him. 
• They started over toward the elevator and then the old lady turned away from the man and made her way over to the receptionist’s desk. 
• The couple smiled in such a dignified way, and it seemed like they hadn’t noticed a thing. 

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IWIWAP: By having the narrator tell the story to Marge, the author allows the reader to function as — 

• a firsthand witness
• a second storyteller
• a third-party observer
• an informed participant

IWIWAP: The author uses ellipses primarily to-  

• give the story a conversational tone 
• make the reader think that the story will have an unexpected ending 
• indicate that the narrator is judgmental 
• imply that the reader should act as a participant in the events of the story 

BOTH:  Which quotation from “I Wish I Was a Poet” best reflects the speaker’s overall experience in “Sunday Morning Early”? 

• They were raggedy and kinda beat. 
• Everyone kept their eyes dead on her, and the receptionist, who was awfully young and pretty, was almost scared out of her wits. 
• Yes, I dropped by to see her last night. . . . 
• Sometimes there are poetry things that I see and I’d like to tell people about them in a poetry way. . . . 

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BOTH: Which two actions in the selections have a similar meaning? 

• Paddling identical kayaks in “Sunday Morning Early” and staying at a downtown hotel in “I Wish I Was a Poet” 
• Hearing the chirring of grasshoppers in “Sunday Morning Early” and taking out the crumpled dollar bills in “I Wish I Was a Poet” 
• Listening to the stillness in “Sunday Morning Early” and smelling the roses in “I Wish I Was a Poet” 
• Leaning out of the boat in “Sunday Morning Early” and stringing the beans in “I Wish I Was a Poet” 

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