- Critical Reading
1. Key Ideas and Details (a) What reason does B. Wordsworth
give for wanting to come into the boy's yard? (b) Compare and
Contrast: How is B. Wordsworth different from the other visi-
tors who are described?
2. Key Ideas and Details What does B. Wordsworth mean
when he calls the boy "a poet"?
3. Key Ideas and Details B. Wordsworth "did everything as
though he were doing it for the first time." In what way does
this help make B. Wordsworth "a poet"?
4. Key Ideas and Details (a) Infer: What do you think
B. Wordsworth's motivation is for spending time with the boy?
(b) Draw Conclusions: What does the boy gain from knowing
B. Wordsworth?
5. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Does B. Wordsworth's
name reflect the harmful effects of colonialism on the identity of
colonized peoples? Explain, using at least two of these Essential
Question words: authenticity, inherent identity, influence.
[Connecting to the Essential Question: What is the rela-
tionship between literature and place?]