Salvador Nunez Period:___________

Name:__________________
7th Date:_____________

Directions: You will read and annotate for tone, diction, and unfamiliar words.
Summarize each section on the lines provided. Be sure to write your summary in
complete sentences.
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A Boy in a Bed in the Dark

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Born with a cleft palate,
My two-year-old brother, The 2 year old boy with captain
Recovering from yet another surgery,I recover's From a surgeryThe 2yrold
rugger'll
Toddled into our bedroom knocked the olderbrothers tower of blocks
Toppled a tower of blocks
That I had patiently built
Ewer
And in a five-year-old’s fury When the 2 old knocked
the tower hisyr
I grabbed a fallen block
5 yr old brother
And winged it at him
of
got upset and throwed onebusted
Ripping open his carefully
the blocks at him that
reconstructed lip.
his lip
The next hours were gruesomely
compressed
with a boy in a bed in the dark After the accident the 2
EFFIEEnding year
Mute with fear old boy went to the hospital
The
Staring out into the hallway with horror brother was horrified and saw loads
As the pediatrician went in and out of
the bathroom
of bloody towels that made him
worry
With one vast blood-soaked towel after another
Shaking his head worriedly
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My brother’s howls
And my parents’ cooed comfort
Became the soundtrack to this
The 2 year old crys while
parents are comforting him The 5

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milky movie
That plays yr old brother guilt was awful and
In my darkest theatre, Felt sorry For what he did
The one that I sidle past each

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night
With a shudder
And a throb in my fist

Drawing: Using text evidence from the poem to create a scene from the poem.

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