The document provides reading comprehension questions about two short stories - "Doodle" and "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou. It asks the student to answer multiple choice and short answer questions about key details, themes, characters and events in the stories. It also includes a writing prompt asking students to write their own poem in response to Angelou's "Still I Rise" about overcoming negative emotions. Students are directed to complete the questions, send their answers to their teacher, and then log into Achieve3000 to do additional assignments.

1. English I

2. Directions
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3. 1. The speaker in the story is Doodle’s brother. He is a
grown man remembering his brother; therefore, the
reader sees two points of view – Doodle’s brother’s point
of view as a child and his point of view as an adult. From
the story he tells, what did the speaker learn from his
relationship with his brother?
2. How is Doodle a disappointment to his brother from the
beginning of the story until the end? Does this change at
the end? How do we know?
3. How does the author use foreshadowing to prepare the
reader for Doodle’s death?
4. Is Doodle an appropriate nickname? Why or why not?
5. Why didn’t the author give Doodle’s brother a name?
Discussion Questions (Scarlet ibis)

4. Written Response
• How does the author use Doodles brother’s pride to
foreshadow Doodle’s death?

5. Still I Rise
1. Read the poem.
2. What do you think the title means?
3. Why would someone with such a difficult
childhood be able to say “Still I Rise”?
4. What’s the theme of the poem?
5. Read the poem again.
6. Highlight words that support the “Still I Rise” theme
in a different color.
7. Summarize each stanza of the poem.

6. Still I rise
• To whom is the poet writing?
• What does the poet mean, “I’ll rise,” and what is the
impact of the repetition of this phrase?
• Why does the author ask questions of the reader?
• What is a key word in each stanza?

7. Still I rise
• You are going to write an antonym poem in response to
Angelou’s poem. The poem will be based on emotional
opposites, negative and positive emotions, such as
Losing/Winning (or Winning first, then losing),
Failure/Success, Left out/ Chosen, Ugly/Beautiful.
Choose one that shows how you sometimes feel. Come
up with words you can use for each. Then create a line
you can repeat throughout the poem to overcome the
negative feelings (like the phrase “Still I Rise”). Your
poem should include elaboration and support such as
Angelou demonstrated in her poem.
• Use dictionary.com to help you define any words that
you don’t know.