Poem (the spider and the fly)

What are the four ways in which the spider tried to lure the fly.

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

The spider refers to its web as the 'parlour' but later the narrator calls it a den? Why is this so?

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Who wrote this poem

• Ernest Hemingway

• Katherine Pyle

• Mary Howitt

• Marie Howitt

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

What makes the fly change her mind and enter the spider's den?

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

Think of the character traits of the spider and the fly. Which three adjectives would you use to describe the spider and the fly.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A similie is a figure of a speech that directly compares two different things by employing the words 'as' or 'like' a metaphor is a figure of a speech in which an indirect comparison is made between two objects that seem dissimilar but actually have things in common. Pick out an example each of a similie and a metaphor from the poem.

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What is the meaning of 'fable'? Is this poem an example of a 'fable'? Why do you think so?

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

Word meaning of Parlour

• Dressing room

• Living room

• Bathroom

• Kitchen

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Word meaning of tis

• It is

• it is not

• this

• because

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Word meaning of spy

• be sad

• be happy

• Not looking

• see(In this poem)

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4