A Blessing

When do the events in the story take place?

• sunrise

• midday

• twilight

• midnight

What have the ponies come out of the willows to do?

• greet visitors

• watch cars go by

• graze in the woods

• leap over the fence

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

What represents the separation between people and animals in the story?

• pond

• pasture

• ditch

• fence

Where would you most likely find a blossom?

• at a ballgame

• in the sky

• in the garden

• on a boat

What does shyly most likely mean?

• loudly

• timidly

• rudely

• happily

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

When would someone most likely feel loneliness?

• With friends at a birthday party

• On vacation with family

• at a busy restaurant

• at summer camp, alone with no friends or family around

Read this passage:

And the eyes of those two Indian ponies

Darken with kindness.

They have come gladly out of the willows...

What words make the horse seem human?

• kindness, gladly

• ponies, kindness

• eyes, ponies

• gladly, willows

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What effect do the ponies have on the speaker?

• They bring up old memories.

• They make him feel alive.

• They cause him to be careful.

• They make him feel sad.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.W.6.9A

The speaker of the poem feels "alive" because of the ponies. What passage supports this?

• We step over the barbed wire into the pasture/Where they have been grazing all day, alone.

• I would like to hold the slenderer one in my arms, / For she has walked over to me...

• They bow shyly as wet swans. They love each other. / There is no loneliness like theirs.

• Suddenly I realize / That if I stepped out of my body I would break/ Into blossom

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

What does "grazing all day, alone" mean?

• grazing in the city

• grazing in apart from each other

• grazing without human company

• grazing one at a time, taking turns

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4