HW Mr. Padilla 11.14.16

Homework: Dear parents/guardians, please assist your child with today’s homework.  

Option 3: Read the text below and answer the questions that follow. Write complete sentences. Use examples from the reading to support your points.

One morning I woke up earlier than usual. Johnny and I slept huddled together for warmth---Dally had been right when he said it would get cold where we were going. Being careful not to wake Johnny up, I went to sit on the steps and smoke a cigarette. The dawn was coming then. All the lower valley was covered with mist, and sometimes little pieces of it broke off and floated away in small clouds. The sky was lighter in the east, and the horizon was a thin golden line. The clouds changed from gray to pink, and the mist was touched with gold. There was a silent moment when everything held its breath, and then the sun rose. It was beautiful.…

"The mist was what was pretty," Johnny said. "All gold and silver."

"Uhmmmm," I said, trying to blow a smoke ring.

"Too bad it couldn't stay like that all the time."

"Nothing gold can stay." I was remembering a poem I'd read once.

"What?"

"Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."

…."You know," Johnny said slowly, "I never noticed colors and clouds and stuff until you kept reminding me about them. It seems like they were never there before." He thought for a minute.

1. Underline al the descriptive words in the passage (for example, valley, gold, clouds, etc).

2.  Look up any underlined words in google images (like valley) if you are not sure what it looks like.

3. What does” Nature's first green is gold” mean to you?  

4. What is Ponyboy talking about?

5. What could this mean: “Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour”?

Option 2: Read the text below and answer the questions that follow. Write complete sentences. Use examples from the reading to support your points.

One morning I woke up earlier than usual…All the lower valley was covered with mist, and sometimes little pieces of it broke off and floated away in small clouds… The clouds changed from gray to pink, and the mist was touched with gold. There was a silent moment … and then the sun rose. It was beautiful.…

"The mist was what was pretty," Johnny said. "All gold and silver."

"Uhmmmm," I said, trying to blow a smoke ring.

"Too bad it couldn't stay like that all the time."

"Nothing gold can stay." I was remembering a poem I'd read once.

"What?"

"Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."

…."You know," Johnny said slowly, "I never noticed colors and clouds and stuff until you kept reminding me about them. It seems like they were never there before." He thought for a minute.

1.       What did Pony do when he woke up? What did he see?

2.       What did Johnny find pretty?

3.       After Ponyboy recited the poem to Johnny, what did Johnny say?

Option 1: Read the text below and answer the questions that follow. Write complete sentences. Use examples from the reading to support your points.

One morning I woke up earlier than usual…All the lower valley was covered with mist….

1.      What happened in the morning?

The clouds changed from gray to pink, and …touched with gold. There was a silent moment … and then the sun rose. It was beautiful.…

2.      How did the clouds change?

3.      What did Ponnyboy feel about this moment?

"The mist was what was pretty," Johnny said. "All gold and silver."…

"Too bad it couldn't stay like that all the time."

4.      How does Johnny describe the midst? 

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