Stereotype This Poem Mini assessment

What is theme?

• moral message

• universal

• the central idea

• the topic

In the poem "Stereotype This" what is the theme?

• Both generational trauma and inner strength can be passed down through the family tree.

• Alcoholism is a pervasive problem in Native American communities that is difficult to address.

• There is a great deal of trauma in Native American history, but it is time to focus on the future.

• We cannot move past atrocities committed against Native Americans until we learn to discuss them.

What is tone?

• the author's attitude

• the reader's feeling

• how someone raises their voice

• the dial on the phone

What is a stanza?

• The paragraphs of a poem

• The lines of a poem

• an essay

• rhyme

What impact does line 5 have on the stanza's tone?

• It shifts the poem toward a silly tone.

• It shifts the stanza toward a lighter tone.

• It begins the poem with a vengeful tone.

• It begins the stanza with a sorrowful tone.

Which line best supports the idea that depriving Native children of their ancestral practices was harmful?

• "Today a boarding school sat like a lump in my throat" (line 7)

• "With butchered hair and broken Christian wings," (line 9)

• "How do I tell him that I feel the Trail of Tears like hard sand in my veins?" (line 14)

• "Because today only burning flags could be found at the ghost dance of my people" (line 29)

How does the poet use figurative language in lines 14-17?

"Today I walked away from my lover

How do I tell him that I feel the Trail of Tears like hard and in my veins?

[15] That I feel Wounded Knee like a frozen battlefield in my stomach?

That I feel the Long Walk like snapping branches in my legs?

I feel it all every time I sip from another bottle of burned memories--"

• She describes real events to give the poem credibility with readers.

• She uses personification to help the reader visualize the speaker's thoughts.

• She creates similes and metaphors to illustrate the depth of the speaker's pain.

• She chooses strong verbs to help the reader better understand the speaker's feelings.

How does the author's cultural background impact the speaker's point of view?

• The author's does not know much about her own heritage, so the speaker is created from the author's research.

• The author does not know much about her own heritage, so the speaker's point of view is unreliable throughout the poem.

• The author shares a similar heritage with the speaker, but she has tried to make the speaker as different from herself as possible.

• The author shares a similar heritage with the speaker, as is apparent in the speaker's knowledgeable and passionate point of view.

1. Read this line from Poem:

”There is a clawing deep inside, 

Like a spider in a thirsty

And it screams in broken lullaby”

Replace the word clawing, as used in these lines, to keep its meaning? (V.1.3)

• scratching

• dragging

• sharpeningin

• polishing

Read the etymology of the word genocide 

Origin: Greek

genos "race, kind"

-cide "a killing.

What does genocide mean as it is used in stanza 3? (V.1.2)

• Total extinction

• Racial categorizing

• Ethnic Cleansing

• Generational destruction