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1. What are birches?

Answer: Birches are trees.

2. Why do birch trees bend after the winter?

Answer: Birches bends because of the ice-storms.

3. When the sun starts to shine again, what happens to the ice crystals on the birch
trees?

Answer: The sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells shattering and
avalanching on the snow-crust.

Activity 11
Knowledge check. Mark your answers with a check at the right columns based on
the questions at the left. This will serve as a review of your understanding of the
poems discussed.

Yes No
Are the three poems similar in structure? √
Are all three poems narrative in nature? √
Do all three make use of rhyming scheme? √
Do all three make use of personification? √
Do all three give the same mood? √
Can you relate with all the poems given? √
Can all three poems happen in real life? √
 Activity 12
Students are asked to write a four-line free verse poem (without meter or
uneven length per line) about the four quarters of the student year. Lines should
start with the quarters of the school year.

Example: First quarter is meeting new friends

Second quarter is learning more

Third quarter is testing your knowledge

Last one is the application and the hardest of them all.

ANSWER:

First quarter is all about chilling

Second quarter is about enjoying

Third quarter is full or stress

Fourth quarter is all about saying goodbyes.

Activity 13
Students are given a word for which they must find as many full rhymes as they
can. For example, for sport, the list could include taught, caught, report, extort,
fort, fraught, sort, fought, port, retort, wart, bought, brought, naught. (Extension:
Students use as many full rhyme words as possible in a poem, either as internal
rhyme or as line-end rhymes).

Write as many rhyming words as you can for the given words. Write your answer
on the space provided.

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1. Read-

 Dead, Shed, Bread, Red, Thread, Instead, Unsaid, Infrared, Ahead,

Shred, Head, Dred, Spread, Widespread
 Bleed, Rid, Breed, Greed, Grid, Lead

2. Night- Fight, bright, light, knight, flight, bite, kite, slight, right, quite, white,
despite, write, sight, height, tight, tonight, might, invite, polite, fright, alright,
ignite, reunite, cite, site, wright, delight.
3. Mood- Food, conclude, screwed, dude, include, reviewed, accrued, viewed,
pursued, crude, nude, renewed, chewed, glued, feud, intrude, proved, improved.

4. Brick- Click, quick, thick, stick, prick, lick, quick, sick, pick, trick, chick, tick,
anemic.

5. Fun- Run, bun, one, than, done, begun, won, none, son, pun, hun, sun, hon, ton,
nun.

6. Mine- Nine, line, wine, decline, spine, sign, design, shrine, assign, fine, divine,
sunshine, define, decline, combine, pine, resign, confine, swine, align, incline,
whine, align, assign.

7. Car- Bar, are, far, star, jar, scar, guitar, bazaar, our, solar.

8. Sing- Bling, thing, king, ring, sting, string, wing, swing, cling, bring, spring, fling.

9. Day- Say, they, way, play, away, pay, stay, May, survey, display, prey, pray,
ray, gray, delay, essay, clay, okay, gay, convey, obey, spray, decay, lay, today,
bay, way, tray, weigh, stray, portray, repay, betray, sway,

10. Came- Name, same, tame, claim, proclaim, lame, blame, aim, became, game,
frame, shame, flame, acclaim.

Activity 14
Write your own text tula following the rhyme scheme aabb and one for abab.
Think of your own subject or what your poem is all about. Then, decide its
appropriate title.

Love Friends

I don’t know what is this feeling Whenever I am sad

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I keep on just looking at the ceiling
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Imagining his embrace
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With a smile on my face
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My friends always makes me happy
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And I am glad
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Because they are my friend even
though they’re naughty
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