The windy night
(a poem for two voices)  Vivienne Joseph | |
'Who's that tap-tapping at my window? | 'It is I, the flax, you hear a-tapping. |
'Are those claws I hear – or bony paws? | 'Just branches, child, twigs and leaves. |
'And that sigh – so like a moan and cold as dawn. | 'It is the wind's voice calling to the moon. |
'Who licks its teeth, one by one, with a red, red tongue? | 'Why, Grandma's moonlight cat does that. |
'Whose eyes so bright chip diamonds from the night? | 'The stars that's all, my child, and Grandma's cat. |
'Who's there?' I whisper. 'Who's there?' | 'We are here, so sleep now, sleep.' |
Source:'100 New Zealand Poems for Children', Random House, 1999
| Read the poem and answer the questions below. | ||
a) | Why can't the person in the poem get to sleep? ____________________________________________________________ | |
b) | What is the first sound the person in the poem hears? ____________________________________________________________ | |
c) | What do the branches, twigs, and leaves sound like to the person in the poem? ____________________________________________________________ | |
d) | What do the stars look like to the person in the poem? ____________________________________________________________ | |
e) | Write down two clues from the poem that show it is night-time. | |
i) ii) | ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ | |
f) | Why is the poem written in two columns? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | |
g) | Describe a time you felt like the person in the poem. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | |
a) Because there is something tapping on the window.
ReplyDeleteb) A tapping noise.
c) The person thought that it was claws or bony paws.
d) The stars look like diamonds.
e) the moon and the stars.
f) Because one is asking the question and one is answering.
g)When the wind is blowing the tree out side my window it looks like a tree monster.
a. Because there's a noise.
ReplyDeleteb. Tapping.
c. Claws and bony paws.
e. The moons out and it says sleep sleep.
f. There are two people talking.
g. When the wind whistles through the tree outside my bedroom window.
a)Because some ones tapping at the window.
ReplyDeleteb)The flax.
c)Claws, or bony paws.
d)Diamonds.
e)Moon and stars.
f)Two different people are talking.
g)When I hear the birds making funny noises at night.
A) Because there is something tapping on the Window.
ReplyDeleteB ) Scratching or tapping.
C) Claws or bony paws.
D) The eyes of a monster.
E) The moon and stars.
F) Because two people read it.
G) When the wind howls at night.
A Because there is someone tapping at the window.
ReplyDeleteB Tap tapping
C Claws and paws
D Chip Diamonds
E Moon & Stars
F One is question and one is answers
G When there was tapping at the window
By Jemma
DeleteA Because there is someone tapping at the window.
ReplyDeleteB Tapping.
C Claws.
D Diamonds.