• Unit Two Test – have you written it?
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Unit Two Exam is comprised of two parts.
Part One - Persuasive Essay - 60 points
Part Two – Persuasive Speech - 40 points
Read these directions and the entire exam carefully before you begin to write.
>Follow instructions carefully
>Complete both questions
>You may use a dictionary and a thesaurus
>You are allowed up to TWO HOURS to complete this exam.
While writing, be sure to use complete sentences and well developed paragraphs in your answers.
Also, include examples from the literature introduced in Unit Two only.
EDIT AND SAVE your completed work before submitting.
If you haven’t written it, be sure to write
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it this week!
Unit Three - Choices
• This unit offers works of literature that reflect on individual choices
and the consequences of those choices.
• At 16/17 years of age, what are some of the most common choices
you are facing now and in the near future?
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• As you read the various works from this unit, think about what
choices (if any) are being emphasized.
“Paper Matches”
• As you read, consider the following
questions:
• Is the poem's scenario typical in today's
society?
• Do you think, overall, that household
tasks are more fairly divided among
family members now than they were in
the past?
U3L1 - Paper Matches (self check)
Paulette Jiles
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My aunts washed dishes while the uncles
Squirted each other on the lawn with
Garden hoses. Why are we in here,
I said, and they are out there?
That’s the way it is,
Said Aunt Hetty, the shrivelled-up one.
I have the rages that small animals have,
Being small, being animal.
Written on me was a message,
“At Your Service,” like a book of
Paper matches. One by one we were
Taken out and struck.
We come bearing supper,
Our heads on fire.
Read the poem, Paper Matches with the intention to answer the following
questions: (self check)
1. When the speaker says that women are like paper matches, "One by one we
were taken out and struck," is she referring to physical violence against women?
Support your answer with reference to the poem.
2. What might the men playing with the garden hoses be a symbol for?
3. Explain the simile of the matchbook. How are the women like matches?
4. What does the metaphor, "we come bearing supper/our heads on fire" refer
to?
5. If you were given a chance, what would you say to the men and women of
this poem? What advise might you have for the women? How might the conflict
be resolved?
Click on the ‘self check’ link within your lesson to view the answers.