"Keeping the Night Watch"
By: Hope Anita Smith
Fall
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FINDER:
As you read, create a chart tracking the figurative language mentioned in the poetry and throughout the verse novel. A sample chart below has been created for you, but you are free to create a different graphic organizer or chart that suits your liking and still meets assignment expectations.
Directions: In the first column, identify examples of poetic word choices and phrases from “Parents and Teachers” through “Man-to-Man” in Part I of Keeping the Night Watch (“Fall”). In the second column, write what this image looks or feels like. In the third column, write why the author chose to describe the example as she did.
As you read, create a chart tracking the figurative language mentioned in the poetry and throughout the verse novel. A sample chart below has been created for you, but you are free to create a different graphic organizer or chart that suits your liking and still meets assignment expectations.
Directions: In the first column, identify examples of poetic word choices and phrases from “Parents and Teachers” through “Man-to-Man” in Part I of Keeping the Night Watch (“Fall”). In the second column, write what this image looks or feels like. In the third column, write why the author chose to describe the example as she did.
POETIC PHRASE
1. "Only I know his words are plastic."(pg.4) 2. "And we ooze out."(pg.5) 3. "and her eyes well up with tears."(pg.6) 4. "But my questions are brick heavy."(pg.8) 5. "blow his words away."(pg.10) 6. "I walk around with my words drawn ready to fire."(pg.13) 7. "My crown falls from my head and her words cut, each one a shard of glass."(pg.15) 8. "I am a pot with the lid on"(pg.16) 9. "He is a star that has burned out, lost his ability to be wished upon, but my family is light-years away from knowing this.(pg.17) 10. "She has laid herself out in front of the door like a welcome mat."(pg.19) 11. "She wants to deal with the problem head-on."(pg.21) 12. "My words are cold."(pg.22) 13. "could just stop shining."(pg.23) 14. "We hold our thoughts and feelings hostage"(pg.24) 15. "I'm as constant as the moon."(pg.26) 16. "I will be overwhelmed by an avalanche of forgiveness."(pg.28) 17. "wedged in between me and Zuri, like a sandwich."(pg.31) 18. "I'm stuck."(pg.32) 19. puttin' out the 'gem of the first water' china and linens.(pg.34) 20. "sun rose and set on my father."(pg.37) |
VISUALIZATION
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AUTHOR'S INTENT
1. I think the author wrote that line because she wants to show that the dad is lying. 2. I think the author wrote the that line because she wants to make it seem like the family is actually a cake. 3. I think the author wrote the that line because she wanted to show that Zuri was using her imagination about the dog 4. I think the author wrote the that line because she is trying to show that he is asking so many questions. 5. I think the author wrote the that line because she was trying to make it sound like the open window was just blowing his words away like his dad. 6. I think the author wrote the that line because she wants to show that he is very mad about his dad. 7. I think the author wrote the that line because she wants to make it sound like they are in a actual fairy tale. 8. I think the author wrote the that line because she wants to show that he keeps all of his anger inside. 9. I think the author wrote the that line because she wanted to make it sound like he has lost all of his ability. 10. I think the author wrote the that line because she wanted to make it sound like she was laying there so perfectly like a door mat. 11. I think the author wrote that line because she wants it to sound like she was going to do it first thing and by herself. 12. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like he was lying. 13. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like he was actually a diamond. 14. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like they could not talk. 15. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like he was actually the moon. 16. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted it to sound like it will be a huge amount of forgiveness. 17. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like they are actually a sandwich. 18. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted you to think he was actually stuck. 19. I think the author wrote that line because she was saying that they just put out the first water. 20. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like there was actually a sun rising and setting behind dads head. |
Spring
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FINDER:
As you read, create a chart tracking the figurative language mentioned in the poetry and throughout the verse novel. A sample chart below has been created for you, but you are free to create a different graphic organizer or chart that suits your liking and still meets assignment expectations.
Directions: In the first column, identify examples of poetic word choices and phrases from “Parents and Teachers” through “Man-to-Man” in Part I of Keeping the Night Watch (“Fall”). In the second column, write what this image looks or feels like. In the third column, write why the author chose to describe the example as she did.
As you read, create a chart tracking the figurative language mentioned in the poetry and throughout the verse novel. A sample chart below has been created for you, but you are free to create a different graphic organizer or chart that suits your liking and still meets assignment expectations.
Directions: In the first column, identify examples of poetic word choices and phrases from “Parents and Teachers” through “Man-to-Man” in Part I of Keeping the Night Watch (“Fall”). In the second column, write what this image looks or feels like. In the third column, write why the author chose to describe the example as she did.
POETIC PHRASE
1. "Her voice is like a fairy's magic wand."(pg.43) (line.11) 2. "I'm bound for the Promised Land."(pg.45) (line.29) 3. "And every word that comes after plows into the one in front of it."(pg.46)(line.17-18) 4. "one parent's signature. Piece of cake."(pg.47) (line.2-3) 5. "You are a whipped, man-without a belt!"(pg.51)(line.13) 6. "Every day you run the gauntlet and try to come out on the other side alive."(pg.52) (line.3-5) 7. "I reach for conversation, but what I really want to say sits on the highest shelf. (pg.54) (line.7-9) 8. "Gradmomma says, "With love, you don't conceal. No point in hiding horses in the shed."(pg.57) (line.4-5) 9. "I am God making mountains of shaving cream in the palms of hands."(pg.58) (line.12-14) 10. "My eyes nearly popped out of my head."(pg.61) (line.17) 11. "Your momma wound up and gave me in the heart and I was down for the count. I still haven't recovered!"(pg.63) (line.13-15) 12. "Fathers, who leave, keep paying even when they come back."(pg.67) (line.6) 13. "I have his eyes, his mouth, his hands, his heart."(pg.68) (line.3-4) 14. "Emotions were strewn about and still we just kept stepping over, around on them." (pg.70) (line.6-8) 15. "Gradmomma becomes the melody; and Byron and Zuri, her perfect harmony." (pg.72) (line.14-15) |
VISUALIZATION
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AUTHOR'S INTENT
1. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like her voice was really sweet. 2. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like he is a very good kid. 3. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like he was saying to much. 4. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like getting a signature would be really easy. 5. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound is is in love ALOT 6. I think the author wrote that line because she wants to make it sound like it is so harsh it is like a battlefield. 7. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like he has nothing to say. 8. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like he is hiding his love for Maya. 9. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like there was so much it was like a mountain. 10. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like he was really surprised. 11. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like he was struck by love. 12. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like he was making it up to them with love. 13. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to say that he is the fathers son. 14. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like they were dodging their emotions. 15. I think the author wrote that line because she wanted to make it sound like they sounded like music. |