Young Night Thought

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• Young Night Thought
• by Robert Louis Stevenson

Grade 4 2008 Released Items
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• 1 Who is the speaker in the poem?
• A. A child
• B. A mother
• C. An emperor

LA 06 Demonstrate understanding of literary
elements (genres story elements such as plot,
character, setting stylistic devices
problem/resolution) and graphic elements/illustrat
ions (Reading GLEs 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.3.3)
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• 2 Which event happens first in the poem?
• A. The marchers reach the town of Sleep.
• B. The circus on the green performs.
• C. Armies and emperors march by.

LC 05 Order steps, sequence, and/or events from
the reading (Reading GLE 2.2.1)
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• 3 What does the speaker mean when she says, I
  see the people
• marching by, As plain as day, before my eye in
  lines 3 and 4 of
• the poem?
• A. The people are very easy for the speaker to
  see.
• B. The people are very difficult for the speaker
  to see.
• C. The people are moving too quickly for the
  speaker to see.

LC 03 Make inferences or predictions based on
the reading (Reading GLE 2.1.5)
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4 Any of these words could be used to describe
the speaker in the poem. Choose the word that
best describes the speaker. Imaginative
Sleepy Excited Provide two details from the
poem to support your choice. ____________________
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LA 06 Demonstrate understanding of literary
elements (genres story elements such as plot,
character, setting stylistic devices
problem/resolution) and graphic
elements/illustrations (Reading GLEs 2.2.2,
2.2.3, 2.3.3)
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• Text-based details may include, but are not
  limited to
• Imaginative / Sleepy / Excited
• All night long / every night
• Mama puts out the light
• Caravan (people) marching by / Dreams of a parade
• Everything she dreams is as plain as day
• Dreams of armies / emperors / kings
• Carrying different kinds of things
• Never saw the like by day
• So fine a show was never seen
• Dreams of a great circus
• Dreams of every kind of beast and man
• People are going fast / slow
• Reaches the town of Sleep

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4 Any of these words could be used to describe
the speaker in the poem. Choose the word that
best describes the speaker. Imaginative
Sleepy Excited Provide two details from the
poem to support your choice.
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This response chooses Sleepy to describe the
speaker in the poem and provides two text-based
details to support the choice. A. ...all night
long... L. ...town of Sleep.
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4 Any of these words could be used to describe
the speaker in the poem. Choose the word that
best describes the speaker. Imaginative
Sleepy Excited Provide two details from the
poem to support your choice.
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This response chooses Imaginative to describe the
speaker in the poem and provides two
textbased details to support the choice. E.
...dreams of armies and empires marching... J.
...every beast and man is marching
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4 Any of these words could be used to describe
the speaker in the poem. Choose the word that
best describes the speaker. Imaginative
Sleepy Excited Provide two details from the
poem to support your choice.
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This response chooses Sleepy to describe the
speaker in the poem and provides one text-based
detail to support the choice. L. Until we reach
the town of sleep.
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4 Any of these words could be used to describe
the speaker in the poem. Choose the word that
best describes the speaker. Imaginative
Sleepy Excited Provide two details from the
poem to support your choice.
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This response chooses Imaginative to describe the
speaker in the poem and provides one text based
detail to support the choice. C. ...she dreaming
about a parade
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4 Any of these words could be used to describe
the speaker in the poem. Choose the word that
best describes the speaker. Imaginative
Sleepy Excited Provide two details from the
poem to support your choice.
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This response chooses Imaginative to describe the
speaker but does not support the choice with
text-based details.