Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson

What is the point of view of the speaker in the poem?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person

• Fourth person

Which three (3) words from the poem help you determine the point of view from Question 1?

• You

• Your

• I

• Me

• My

1. MAKING INFERENCES- What type of city is being described in this poem?

• a large, old city with a castle in the center of it

• a small town by the sea

• a city made with toy blocks in someone’s living room

• a city built on a hill

SUMMARIZING- Which phrase best

supports the idea that the narrator

of this poem is a child?

• Coming and going with presents

  and things!

• To where my toy vessels lie safe

  in the bay.

• Hark to the song of the sailors on

  board!

• Rain may keep raining, and

  others go roam,

TEXT EVIDENCE- What did the narrator use

as mountains in his or her city?

• sofa

• blocks

• carpet

• steps

AUTHOR’S TONE- Which word best

describes the author’s tone

throughout the poem?

• lonely

• angry

• thoughtful

• cheerful

VOCABULARY- Which word could

replace the underlined word in the

second stanza of the poem?

• float

• glide

• wide

• move

CONTEXT CLUES- What does

“moored” mean in this passage?

• the ringing of a church bell

• to be secured in place with an

  anchor or cable

• to compare the amount of

  two substances

• to leave a particular place

Which words best describes the speaker of the poem?

• Old, hopeless

• Young, imaginative

• Old, hopeful

• Young, stifled

Choose your classroom teacher below.

• Aguilar

• Arnold

• Simmons

• Soliz

• Williams