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What is one difference between the excerpt from Impossible Music and the poem “The Sick Child”? 

• Impossible Music deals with a child who is deaf while “The Sick Child” deals with a child who is sick.

• Impossible Music deals with a child who is dying while “The Sick Child” deals with a child who is going to sleep

• Impossible Music deals with a child who is blind while “The Sick Child” deals with a child who has a fever.

• Impossible Music deals with a child who is mute while “The Sick Child” deals with a child who is blind.

Read these quotations from the selections.

“The Sick Child”

And why are you crying, mother dear?

Impossible Music

I didn’t need ears to understand what she had been told, or to recognize how it made her feel.

 

 

_____2.  These quotations provide evidence that both the child in the poem and the child in the excerpt are -                                

• unaffected by their mothers’ reactions

• irritated with their mothers’ reactions

• aware of their mothers’ reactions

• confused by their mothers’ reactions

What are two similarities between the excerpt from Impossible Music and the poem “The Sick Child”?

 

Select TWO correct answers.

• Both include a child suffering from a deadly disease.

• Both reveal how a mother deals with the loss of a child.

• Both deal with a child’s unwell condition.

• Both indicate that a child is suffering from a rare illness.

• Both reveal how a mother deals with feelings of helplessness.

In the poem “The Sick Child,” how is the mother’s reaction different from the mother’s reaction in the excerpt from Impossible Music?

• The mother in the poem is completely overwhelmed by her child’s condition.

• The mother in the poem knows that her life will return to normal.

• The mother in the poem knows that her life has changed permanently.

• The mother in the poem is frustrated with her child’s condition.

Read this quotation from paragraph 3 of Impossible Music.

The message had finally gotten through, which was ironic: Mum could hear the words better than I could. She just didn’t want to listen.

What is the irony expressed in this quotation?

• The boy suffers from a very rare condition that the mother does not understand.

• The mother is upset that she is not able to comfort her son.

• The mom can hear; the boy can’t, but he understands his condition before she does.

• The mom can hear what the doctors are saying, and it overwhelms her.

Read this quotation from paragraph 5.

 

 It was like I’d woken up that fateful day with my head in a bucket of water, but a thousand times worse. I felt drowned by nothing, smothered by silence.

 

Why does the narrator use figurative language in this quotation?

• To explain the cause of his deafness

• To describe his mother’s silent response when she realizes he is deaf

• To suggest he tries to hear noises again by sticking his head in a bucket of water

• To reveal what he feels and experiences when he realizes he cannot hear

Use the excerpt from the novel Impossible Music and the poem “The Sick Child” to write a response to the following question:

 

Explain how the author of the novel excerpt and the poet both use the mothers’ reactions to help indicate the severity of each child’s condition.

Write a well-organized informational essay that uses specific evidence from the selections to support your answer.

**This is shorter than a staar essay - you only have 1000 characters here.