Tuesday, 3/6/01
Warm Up--Copy!

1)burden : imposition :: won : 
2)respect : admiration :: motivate : 
3)sequence : combination :: personality : 
4)version : adaptation :: story : 
5)different : various :: inherited :

WarmUp II--Fame

Fame is a bee 
It has a song-- 
It has a sting-- 
Ah, too, it has a wing. 

1)What does the "song" represent?
2)What does the "sting" represent?
3)What does the "wing" represent?
4)What is a comparison like this called?

"I'm Nobody"
by  Emily Dickinson

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you--Nobody--too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd banish us--you know!

How dreary--to be--Somebody!
How public--like a Frog--
To tell your name--the livelong June--
To an admiring Bog!
 

1) "Admiring Bog" stands for... a) Friends. b) Family. c) Society. d) All of the above. e) None of the above.
2) Nobody in this poem means...a) No one of importance to society. b) A loser. c) Someone with no identity. c) All of the above. e) None of the above.
3) What does the speaker compare being a public Somebody to?
4) Does the narrator like being a nobody? How can you tell? Use word(s) from the poem to back up what you say.
5) Paraphrase (put into your own words) the poem.

"All Summer in a Day" (p106)--Venus Pics.

Have you ever seen or been involved when a group is picking on an individual? Why does this happen?