Worth 100 points and ! answer each question with 4-5 setting the mood listen to the reading of the poem. focus on the choices the speaker makes when reading the poem. after you listen to the poem, answer the following questions in your reading journal.

1. what emotions come to mind when you hear the reader's voice in this poem? (if you have trouble hearing the reader's emotion, listen to his voice when he speaks the lines the traveler says. does he sound confident, worried, happy, scared? )
2. what does the speaker do that creates this emotion? use specific examples or descriptions in your answer.
3. why is that emotion appropriate for this poem? look at the text of the poem. use specific details from the poem to support your inference about the speaker’s emotion.
4. what conclusion can you draw about the speaker? what about the listeners? use evidence from the poem to support your answer.

the poem is called "the listeners"

Lunches in us high schools are lacking adequate nutritional value. the menus have become increasingly varied over the past two decades, and they are varied to a fault. now high school students can choose between healthy main dishes and "junk food" items offered à la carte on the school menu. milkshakes and fries are often the lunch of choice for america’s youth. fourteen-year-old alira sanson from grand rapids, michigan, admits, "i love my high school's menu. it is much better than middle school food. i eat a giant chocolate chip cookie and a bag of chips for lunch every day—because i can." the middle school menu alira refers to is the government-regulated hot lunch mandated in elementary and middle schools across the nation. lunches at the high school level are often under site-based management, and food service officials are under pressure to provide food that sells. this pressure renders unhealthy choices, and the resulting menus are detrimental to students. what is the topic of this passage? a. high school food is better than middle school food. b. high school students can choose their lunches, but middle school students cannot. c. a comparison of hot lunches in the united states d. the nutritional value of high school lunches