"The Hill We Climb" poem 1. What types of imagery (sights, sounds, smells, tastes) do you experience as you listen to/read the poem?

2. What do you wonder about "why" Ms. Gorman wrote the poem?

3. What stands out to you or speaks to you within the poem? Choose a line or lines from the poem, copy them in your response and explain why these lines have meaning to you?.

4. What is the tone of the poem?

5. What is the message/theme of the poem?

6. Ms. Gorman uses the metaphor of a hill in her poem. Why do you think she chose to include this metaphor in the title? What do you feel the "hill we climb" metaphor represents/means and how does it relate to our present-day "America?"

Who gets bob ewell to stop his bothering?

Choose the sentence that is not logically connected in the paragraph. (1) doctor henderson was a kind and gentle man. (2) his patients loved and respected him. his death made many of them sad. (3) as a young man, he decided to become a doctor and pursue a life of healing and comforting. (4) his work will long be remembered by the citizens of battle creek, michigan.

In the sweet hereafter and the following poem, what does the newborn symbolize? "every death is magic from the enemy to be avenged" by brooks haxton when fever burned the last light out of my daughter's eyes, i swore to find and kill the ones to blame. men must mount the long boat in the dark with spears. at dawn, where the flowering spicebush hid my scent, i crouched. a young wife, newborn slung across her chest, came first for spring water. she stooped. my god, for vengeance, spoke her secret name inside my ear. her god stepped back with no scream, his right hand at his mouth, the knuckles clenched between the pointed teeth. death is not evil. innocence of childhood the continuing cycle of life and death the children that will never be born