Monday, 3/11/02
Copy homework into assignment book.
Warm Up.
  1. What happened on July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia, PA?
  2. Before that, the United States had been colonies of ______________.
  3. What happened on December 7, 1941, in Honolulu, HA?
  4. 64/80 = _______% = ________(letter grade)
  5. ID the subject and predicate: Some of her diary entries tell about funny incidents in the course of her day.
Pretest #17

"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) Would you like to be famous? Why/not?

"All Summer in a Day"