Page 17 - Point 5 Literature Program Option 1 Teachers Guide (2) (1)

Summative Assessment

Answer all the questions.
total: 100 points

INTRODUCTION TO POETRY

Billy collins

1. the poem begins with I ask them to take a poem…
Who is I and who are them? (10 points)

2. explain the following lines:
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out ... (10 points)

3. Why do you think the poem is called Introduction to Poetry? (20 points)

4. choose one of the following HotS to answer this question:
Distinguishing different perspectives
Explaining patterns

a. the thinking skill i chose: __________________________
b. the poem has no rhyme scheme, but the poet uses patterns of repetition and
alliteration instead. explain. (25 points)

c. explain why you chose this thinking skill to answer the question. (5 points)

5. read the following information and then answer the question.

Billy collins was an only child, whose mother stopped working in order to raise
him. Although she was a nurse by profession, she knew a great deal of poetry by
heart and used to recite verses to Billy as a young child. through this he learned
to love both spoken and written poetry.
(Based on Wikipedia)

How does this information help you understand collins’ decision to create the
Poetry 180 project in general and to open it with the poem Introduction to Poetry
in particular? (30 points)

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