Review+and+Assess+Questions

=**Review and Assess**= //Thinking About the Selection//


 * 1. Respond:** What did you as you read these poems? What did you hear?


 * 2.(a) Recall:** In "A Black Man Talks of Reaping," why does the speaker plant "deep"? **(b) Draw Conclusions:** What do you think is meant by the "stark, lean year"?


 * 3.(a) Recall:** In "A Black Man Talks of Reaping," how much seed does the speaker scatter? **(b) Recall:** How much grai is he allowed to harvest. **(c) Infer:** Who reaps what the speaker has sown?


 * 4.(a) Recall:** In "Storm Ending," what natural event does the poem describe? **(b) Analyze:** What is the speakers attituted towards the event described? **(c) Support:** Which words best convey this attitude?


 * 5.(a) Infer:** What does Bontemps suggest about what African Americans have recieved in exchange for their hard work? **(b) Apply:** In what way does Bontemps's poem comment on the idea that "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap"?

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