INCIDENT BY COUNTEE CULLEN

Dear Students,

Read the poem below and answer the following questions in complete sentences:

 
     Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

     Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment 
     Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

Incident

by Countee Cullen

Once riding in old Baltimore,

Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,

I saw a Baltimorean

Keep looking straight at me.

Now I was eight and very small,

And he was no whit bigger,

And so I smiled, but he poked out

His tongue, and called me, “Nigger.”

I saw the whole of Baltimore

From May until December;

Of all the things that happened there

That’s all that I remember.

1.      What might lead a child to insult another child this way?

2.       Look at the last stanza.

          Look at the title

          What is ironic here about the title? 

Dear Students,

Read the poem below and answer the following questions in complete sentences:

 
     Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment

     Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment 
     Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

Incident

by Countee Cullen

Once riding in old Baltimore,

Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,

I saw a Baltimorean

Keep looking straight at me.

Now I was eight and very small,

And he was no whit bigger,

And so I smiled, but he poked out

His tongue, and called me, “Nigger.”

I saw the whole of Baltimore

From May until December;

Of all the things that happened there

That’s all that I remember.

1.      What might lead a child to insult another child this way?

2.       Look at the last stanza.

          Look at the title

          What is ironic here about the title? 

** All homework must be signed by a parent.**

      Dear parent/guardian, 

      Please review and sign you child's homework daily. 

      Ms. Tyler