The Echoing Green

In the "Echoing green" what does the echoing green represent?

• Football field

• A school

• A green field

• A soccer field

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In stanza 3 William Blake uses a simile to compare two things. What is he comparing?

• Children to the sun

• Children to birds

• Children to a field

• Children to sports

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In stanza 1 it reads "The sun does arise, and make happy the skies." What does this line mean?

• The sun is setting and it is becoming night time

• The sun is rising and it is becoming night time

• The sun is rising and it is becoming morning time

• The moon is coming out and it is becoming night time

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"Such, such were the joys,

When we all, girls and boys,

In our youth time were seen,

on the Echoing Green."

Who was speaking in line 17-20?

• A child

• old man John

• an old woman

• a mother

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In line 17-20

"Such, such were joy,

When we all, girls and boys,

In our youth time were seen,

on the Echoing Green."

What does the narrator mean in these lines?

• The old folks play on the Echoing Green as old people

• The old folk sit under an oak tree

• The old folk played on the Echoing Green in their youth

• The old folk laugh at the children playing

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In stanza 3 it states:

"The sun does descend,

And our sports have an end:

Round the laps of their mothers,

Many sisters and brothers,

Are ready for rest: An sport no more seen

On the Echoing Green."

What does this stanza tell us?

• The children are waking up and starting to play sports

• The sun is coming up and the birds are singing.

• The old folk are laughing at the children play.

• The sun is setting and the children are getting ready for rest.

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CCSS.RL.4.5

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In lines 25-28 what does this tell you about the children?

"Round the laps of their mothers,

Many sisters and brothers,

Like birds in their nest,

Are ready for rest."

What does this tell you about the children?

• The children are in their mother's laps.

• The children are in a nest

• The birds are in their mother's laps

• The children are sleeping in a nest

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CCSS.RL.4.5

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In lines 29-30 it states:

"And sports no more seen,

On the darkening Green."

What does this tell you?

• The kids are playing sports on the Echoing Green

• The birds are singing on the echoing Green

• The old folks are no longer playing sports in the echoing green

• The kids are no longer playing sports in the echoing green.

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Throughout the poem it uses the sun to explain what?

• Time changing throughout the years.

• Time changing throughout the day.

• The color of the sky.

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

What is the theme of the Echoing Green?

• The kids are awake in the morning and asleep at night

• The kids are like birds because they wake up in the morning and sleep at night

• That cycles are a part of life; things change and people grow older.

• The sun sets every day.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

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CCSS.RL.5.2

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