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CAHSEE 3.5 Passage Drill. Which statement below best illustrates the time sequence of the events in the poem?
Transcript
- 00:00
Sorry And here's her swamp you george brought to you
- 00:05
by the elderly You know what the best thing is
- 00:07
about being one hundred for last peer pressure All right
- 00:12
check it Falling past echoing green like old job little
- 00:19
war many sisters With statement below Best illustrates the time
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- 00:25
sequence of the events in the poem And here the
- 00:28
french land Well chances are we can do this one
- 00:33
without skimming the poem but it can't hurt to do
- 00:34
it again this time thinking about the time frame way
- 00:38
have to be quick though because if we've done too
- 00:40
much re skimming our time like running out troy see
- 00:43
looks like it's begging to be eliminated so we'll start
- 00:45
there The poem does make it sound like the gathering
- 00:47
on the green and pretty festive in the way kids
- 00:50
soccer match might be for some screaming soccer moms might
- 00:53
not make party but still we can officially needs option
- 00:55
c because it says there's a funeral on the green
- 00:58
there's nothing in the poem about a funeral which is
- 01:00
good because that kind of talk makes old john in
- 01:02
the grey hair is nervous Answer b doesn't work either
- 01:05
old john and team gray hair do get nostalgic about
- 01:07
the old days but the poem itself never takes his
- 01:09
backwards in time This kind of a relief Whenever we've
- 01:12
time travelled we get super stressed out by the whole
- 01:15
thing No stepping on butterflies think were also going to
- 01:17
get rid of a party on the green only last
- 01:20
a day Not hold decades even the most avid party
- 01:23
animal would probably find that one exhausted And now we
- 01:26
come to a choice deed Correct Answer There's Actually a
- 01:29
clue right in the first line of this poem the
- 01:31
sun does arise While this tells us that sports began
- 01:34
to dawn on the green later in the phone the
- 01:36
word darkening suggests that the sun has set and everyone
- 01:40
is ready for bed We'd be in bed by noon
- 01:42
if we started playing sports of dawn But people were 00:01:44.521 --> [endTime] more hardcore in blake's day
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