Worksheets"What My Father Said" poem
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 14mins
Which of the of the following describes the boys?
They play football for fun in the neighborhood.
They play football on the school team.
They like to pretend they can play football.
They're training o play football professionally.
Why doesn't the speaker's father let him play?
He thinks football is too dangerous.
He thinks playing football is pointless.
He needs help with something.
He doesn't like his son's friends.
Why is the speaker grateful?
NO one noticed that he set the fire.
He didn't get hurt by the fire.
He wasn't a part of the trouble that took place.
His father eventually let him go play.
PART A: Which statement expresses the main theme of the poem?
Working hard is more important than playing with friends.
It can be dangerous to be careless.
Friends often turn on each other during conflict.
Parents often know best, even when we think they don’t.
PART B: Which detail from the poem best supports the answer to Part A (Parents often time knows best, even when we think they don't)?
“We were at that age when bragging rights / shined brighter than Super Bowl rings.” (Lines 19-20)
“I went back inside the shed to help dad / move a spool of fat cables” (Lines 28-29)
“I watched, grateful dad said no, / that accusations weren’t huddled over me” (Lines 38-39)
“Why you lying! You know / you set that fire!” (Lines 40-41)
PART A: What does it mean that the speaker “frizzled” in Line 22?
He is upset that he can’t join his friends.
He is overheating from all his hard work.
He is embarrassed by his father’s words.
He is shocked by his father’s words.
PART B: Which quote from the text best supports the answer to Part A : He is upset that he can’t join his friends.
“They asked if I could kick up the field with them.” (Line 21)
“That was the Saturday Mrs. Brown mulched / her rose bush” (Lines 23-24)
“That was the day I heard my boys / laugh two yards over, yelling touch down!” (Lines 26-27)
“before I saw black billows of smoke / over the shed before Mrs. Brown” (Lines 30-31)
