Small Group – Unit 1 Rotation 2 – Extra Practice Study Guide Items
ANSWER KEY
Hanging Fire / Translating Grandfather’s House
Audre Lorde / E.
J. Vega
Possible reponses:
1. Answers will vary. Students might respond
that the speaker worries about dying because she is anxious and concerned with
all the things she sees as negatives in her life. She is worried that she won’t
live long enough to escape her youth, and she seems to feel alone because she
repeatedly mentions her mother is in the bedroom with the door closed. DOK
2
2. The speaker changes the drawing because his
teacher believes the original is not his grandfather’s house but something from
a Zorro movie. The speaker gives up trying to convince her and simply draws
what she expects to see. DOK 3
3. (a) Both speakers feel misunderstood and
slighted; the girl deserved to be on the math team, and the boy is accused of
inventing his grandfather’s house. DOK 2
(b) Students may respond that the speaker in “Hanging Fire” might prefer to be
in the future, when the problems of being fourteen years old have passed; the
speaker in “Translating Grandfather’s House” might prefer the past, living near
his grandfather. DOK 3
4. The teacher and the mother are both
inaccessible to the speakers—both speakers could use support and validation
from those adults. DOK 2
RETEACH ANSWER KEY
FORMS OF POETRY
1. “Paul Revere’s Ride”
2. Simple rural life in Innisfree, Ireland.
PRACTICE ANSWER KEY
FORMS OF POETRY
A. 1. Excerpt #2
2. the cherry tree
B. 1. King Arthur
2. A cloud
3. He is lonely, he
is wandering, viewing nature from above.
RETEACH ANSWER KEY
ETYOMOLOGY
A. 1. aggressive;
Latin; act of hostility. The dog was always aggressive when it heard the
delivery truck come into the driveway.
2. consensus Latin; to be in agreement. The
consensus of all of the committee members was that they needed to find a
funding source for the water quality projects.
3. malevolent; Latin; ill-disposed or
spiteful. Thomas was malevolent after the weather constantly thwarted his
outdoors plans.
4. trajectory: Latin; to throw over or
across. The satellite’s trajectory was calculated to take it on direct path to
Mars.
PRACTICE ANSWER KEY
ETYOMOLOGY
A. 1. C
2. D
3. B
4. A
B. 1. When Ronda arrived home she made profuse apologizes for
her lateness.
2. He was very
lethargic while answering my questions.
3. The amiable students
liked the teacher’s lesson, so they were paying close attention.
4. It seemed so trite
to keep hearing the same phrases repeated over and over again.
C. I was lethargically
typing my essay because the topic was really boring. The triteness of the
assignment was commented on by all of the students.
RETEACH ANSWER KEY
WORD CHOICE
A. Answers
will vary.
1. world will end in
fire
2. what I’ve tasted
of desire
3. formal; I hold
with those who favor fire.
4. fire/desire;
twice/ice
B. Answers
will vary.
1. The descriptive
words of the world ending in fire paints a picture of great destruction.
2. The poet is
explaining how he understands the results of an experience that he actually
had.
3. The casualness of
informal language would not have demonstrated the poet’s need to express his
opinion.
4. There are only two
lines that rhyme only once. The others repeat the rhyme. These two lines
express the most negative words in the poem—hate.
PRACTICE ANSWER KEY
WORD CHOICE
A. 1. Answers
will vary.
2. It bent in the
undergrowth. It wanted wear. As just as fair.
3. The casualness of
informal language would not have expressed the poet’s opinion as strongly.
4. ages and ages
hence
B. Answers
will vary.
1. The poet’s
descriptive words paints a picture of the traveler standing in a forest with
two paths.
2. The poet is
personifying the path and uses a simile to describe why he chose the path that
he did.
3. The casualness of
informal language would not have explained a turning point in the poet’s life
and the impact of making that decision.
4. The repetition of
the words explains that time has passed in the poet’s life.
