The Three Brass Pennies
The main character of The Three Brass Pennies
Who is Ah Fo?
These are the two characters present
Who are the speaker and the horse?
This is the setting of “Raccoon Olympics”
What is a state park on Rock Island, woods, Lake Michigan?
This is the setting of “Sympathy”
What is the bird is in a cage which contrasts “upland slopes”, “springing grass”, “river flows like a stream of glass”?
The setting of "The Storyteller"
What is railway car, Train, on the way to Templecomb?
One of the three wishes
What is either reading minds, telling the future 1 month in advance, OR acquiring knowledge without effort?
The sensory language paints this picture of the poem
What is nighttime - quiet woods - snowfall?
This is Paul’s job in “Raccoon Olympics”
What is a park naturalist, ranger, “walking encyclopedia of Rock Island”?
This is what the “caged bird” symbolizes
What is African Americans’ fight for freedom, slavery, a circumstance where someone is being held back?
At least two of the characters in the “Story-Teller”
Who are small girl, smaller girl, small boy (Cyril), aunt, bachelor?
Another of the three wishes
What is either reading minds, telling the future 1 month in advance, OR requiring knowledge without effort?
This is the author of the poem
Who is Robert Frost?
This is how the narrator envisions the Raccoon Olympics
What is the narrator imagines that the raccoons wear goggles and swim caps and train for the Olympic tryouts?
He is the author of “Sympathy”
Who is Paul Laurence Dunbar?
The aunts feelings about the bachelor’s story
What is she disapproves of it?
The main character does what with the 3 pennies after using them
What is returns them to the magician?
This is a specific sensory detail from the poem describing the setting
What is "woods and frozen lake" OR "darkest evening" OR "the woods are lovely, dark and deep" OR any other sensory setting detail?
This is the author’s purpose for writing “Raccoon Olympics”
What is to entertain readers with an amusing experience where an adult protects her innocence?
How we know that the speaker identifies with the bird’s plight in “Sympathy”
What is first person point of view is used in many lines like “I know why the caged bird sings, ah me”?
Purpose behind the aunt and bachelor telling stories to the children
What is the children are causing a distraction, the stories are told to entertain them on the train ride
The main character realizes this by the end
What is he appreciates & is happiest with the person he was before?
This pulls the speaker away from the woods
What is responsibilities, promises, or something similar?
This is how the reader know that the narrator and the father have different understandings of the swimming raccoons
What is Paul winks at the father while telling the story?
How we know that the bird wants to be free in “Sympathy”
What is the caged bird beats his wing against the cage and sings a prayer to heaven to gain its freedom?
The children's reactions to the bachelor’s story
What is they enjoyed it because it was about more than just being good?