Grade 8 English




Activity 1
       SUN AND MOON
  The moon shines clear as silver,
  The sun shines bright as gold.
  And both are very lovely,
  And very,very old.

         God hung them up as lanterns,
         For all beneath the sky;
         And nobody blow them out,
         For they are up too high.
     
               Charlotte Druitt Cole

       1.Read this poem and answer
          these questions.
        1.Who is the poet?................

        2.What shines like silver?..............

       3. Who can blow them out?...........

       4.What shines like gold?...............

       5.Who hung them up as                             lanterns?  ................

       6.What is the rhyming word for