About the Author
True or False
Coffin lived from 1892-1978
What is false?
He lived from 1892-1955
What is the rhyme scheme of the excerpt?
"America was brown men
With eyes full of the sun,
But America was schoolmasters,
Tall one by lonely one."
What is ABCB?
Who authored "America Was Schoolmasters"?
Who is Robert P. Tristram Coffin?
Explain the comparison of children to panthers.
"They took small wiry children,
Wild as panther-cats,
And turned them into reasoning
Sunny democrats."
What is wild, untamed, and the need of discipline through education?
What award did Coffin earn in the year of 1936?
What is the Pulitzer Prize for poetry?
What did early schoolmasters do besides teach?
What is instilled morals, hewed oak, and carried water?
What inspired the author to write poems, novels, and essays?
What is the sea and fields around his home?
What literary device is used in this excerpt?
"They took small wiry children,
Wild as panther-cats"
What is a simile?
Where did the author of "America Was Schoolmasters" live?
What is Maine?
What is the definition of syntax?
What is the orderly arrangement of words within a sentence?