what you liked about the poem, English homework help
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This is reading response to story and poems. please read in the instructions and follow it to respond to the story and each poem
Below is the GUidelines in reponding to story and poems. There are total of seven (7) poems all together and one ( 1) story.
1. You may respond to the poems and stories you selected by discussing why you chose a particular poem or story (after reading several) and including favorite (or important) lines from the poem or story. You might like a piece of writing because the subject reminds you of a person, a place, or a situation that you know well. It’s fine to write about these in your responses.
2. Use the questions for responding to fiction to write your responses to the stories. (See below.)
3. Respond to the following for a personal response to the poetry; be sure to include lines from the poem for support.
- what you liked about the poem
- what you disliked
- whether you related to the poem personally and why
- your favorite lines (quote these)
- what you learned from the poem
- whether you would read it to a friend and why
- how the poem reflects the poet’s philosophical beliefs
- how the poem seems to relate to the poet’s life
what words you looked up as you were reading the poem (with definitions, of course)
GUIDELINES FOR RESPONDING TO STORY
You must use quotations from the stories in your responses.
1. What did you like about the story? What did you dislike? Why?
2. Who is your favorite character? Is he or she like you in any way? Would you make the same decisions (or react in the same ways) in the same situations as this character? Why or why not? Which characters remind you of people you know?
3. What did you learn about American history, society, art, literature, philosophy, science (etc.) from this story? What research might you do to help you understand the story better?
4. What did you learn about life from the story?
5. In what ways do you identify with the story?
6. How would you describe the writer’s style or voice? Style includes use of irony, symbolism, figurative language, point of view, etc.
Here’s an interesting checklist of literary style that you might find helpful: Checklist: Elements of Literary Style
7. What are your favorite sentences, passages, words, etc. from the story?
Explain your choice.
8. What would you tell a friend about this story?
9. Who would you recommend this story to and why?
10. What value does this story have for you?
11. What connections do you find between the life of the author and his or her
work?
12. What questions did you have after you finished the story?
13. What words did you look up
ATTACHED IS THE STORY AND 7 POEMS.( THE SEVEN POEMS ARE ARE
1 the lynching
2. mother to son
3. out out
4.lLucinda Matlock
5.Luke Havenga
6.Yet do I marvel
7. This is just to say
