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Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman | Lesson 2 Activity 1 Worksheet. ©2008 Recorded Books, LLC | www.recordedbooks.com/school. Active Verbs. Passive Verbs.
Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman

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Lesson 2 Activity 1 Worksheet

Name: __________________________________________________________ Date:________________ Class: __________________________________________________________

Read and listen to the poem “Fireflies.” Note the active and passive verbs, alliteration, metaphors, and similies. You may need to listen to the poem more than once.

Passive Verbs

Active Verbs

Alliteration

Metaphors

Similes

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Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman

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Lesson 2 Activity 2 Worksheet

Name: __________________________________________________________ Date:________________ Class: __________________________________________________________

Looking at the words and phrases you listed in Activity 1, answer the following questions. 1. How do the verbs help me visualize the poem?

________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 2. How do the passive and active verbs make me feel differently when reading the poem?

________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 3. What does alliteration do to the tempo of the poem?

________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 4. How do the metaphors make me feel? How do the similes make me feel?

________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 5. Why are metaphors used in some cases and similes used in some cases? In what case might one be better than the other?

________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ©2008 Recorded Books, LLC | www.recordedbooks.com/school

Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman

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Lesson 2 Activity 3 Worksheet

Name: __________________________________________________________ Date:________________ Class: __________________________________________________________

Create you own Found Poem! Choose an article from the Sports section of a newspaper. Go through the article and circle or highlight all words or phrases that are active verbs, alliterative phrases, metaphors, or similes. Write down the words that are highlighted below, in order, inserting line breaks wherever you’d like.

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