Warm Up--Copy!
1)burden : imposition :: won :
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WarmUp II--Fame
Fame is a bee
1)What does the "song" represent?
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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?