So Much Depends Upon Poem

Comprehension

Clarify these words: glowing, lone, feathery, pine, silhouetted, blending.

Retell what this poem is about in your own words.

Make inferences or give opinions about:

• What makes this picture special.
• How the sun is like a glowing ball.
• Why it seems to be floating.
• How the pine is feathery.
• Why the fence is described as marching.
• What is silhouetted and why.
• How the sky is painted.
• How this simile is extended in the last line. 

What question could you ask about this poem?

Visualise these uses of descriptive language: huge, round, glowing yellow ball; floating down; lone, black, feathery pine; marching wooden fence line; silhouetted against a painted sky; blending from blood red to pale orange. 

Make a connection with this poem.

Word Study

Verb endings: What happens when we add s, ed or ing to: silhouette.

Other affixes: What happens when we add other prefixes and suffixes like y, en to these words: feather, wood.

Find some examples of adjectives in the poem. 

Find some examples of precise nouns in the poem.

Find some examples of powerful verbs in the poem.

Find some examples of prepositions in the poem.