Activity II: Poetic Text 20 points Time frame: 25 minutes Read carefully the poetic text and respond to all questions in the space provided. Warren Pryor by Alden Nowlan When every pencil meant a sacrifice his parents boarded him at school in town, slaving to free him from the stony fields, the meager acreage that bore them down. They blushed with pride when, at his graduation, 5 they watched him picking up his slender scroll, his passport from the years of brutal toil and lonely patience in a barren hole. When he went in the Bank their cups ran over. They marveled how he wore a milk-white shirt 10 work days and jeans on Sundays. He was saved from their thistle-strewn farm and its red dirt. And he said nothing. Hard and serious like a young bear inside his teller’s cage, his axe-hewn hands upon the paper bills 15 aching with empty strength and throttled rage. Section A: Selected Response Items 3 points Read carefully the poem and circle the best answer for each question.
Activity II: Poetic Text 20 points Time frame: 25 minutes Read carefully the poetic text and respond to all questions in the space provided. Warren Pryor by Alden Nowlan When every pencil meant a sacrifice his parents boarded him at school in town, slaving to free him from the stony fields, the meager acreage that bore them down. They blushed with pride when, at his graduation, 5 they watched him picking up his slender scroll, his passport from the years of brutal toil and lonely patience in a barren hole. When he went in the Bank their cups ran over. They marveled how he wore a milk-white shirt 10 work days and jeans on Sundays. He was saved from their thistle-strewn farm and its red dirt. And he said nothing. Hard and serious like a young bear inside his teller’s cage, his axe-hewn hands upon the paper bills 15 aching with empty strength and throttled rage. Section A: Selected Response Items 3 points Read carefully the poem and circle the best answer for each question.
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