The document contains discussion questions about several poems, including questions about a poem about a father spending money on a truck, a poem about a car crash, and a poem comparing a mother's care of her child to a rainbow. It instructs the reader to write their own 8 line poem imagining what type of car they would be and allows for including images or finding pictures online to accompany the poem.

1. Janet Wong Poems -- Tuesday
1. If you were a car… What would you be?
Why?
If I were a car… I
would be a 1967
Mercedes 190
convertible, because
it’s
timeless, classy, sophist
icated, and most
importantly, cool;
hopefully, I possess a
few of those qualities…

2. Janet Wong Poems – ILMN444
2) How much does dad spend on the
truck, at the beginning of the poem?
3) Why does the poet consider the
truck to be a curse? The poet
considers the truck to be a curse
because…
4) Why might this truck be worth it to
dad?

3. ooxxoxo
 5) What is happening in this poem?
Decipher it.
 6) What is the occasion?

4. CRASH
• 7) What is Grandma
doing in the first
stanza? Why?
• 8)What are they
doing when they
each reach over for
one another?
• 9) How do parts 1 & 2
of the poem fit
together?
• 10) What is the poet
saying about the
value of cars, and the
value of money?

5. Crazy
 11)
What
has mom
done?

6. Rainbow Hand
 12)How is
the mother’s
care of her
child like a
rainbow?

7. Onion
 13)
“…how
she
makes
you
cry, whe
n you
cut her
with your
words”?
Explain.

8. The Light
 14)
What does
grandmother
mean?

9. Your Task:
Go back to #1, and write a
poem about the kind of car
you would be. Be creative.
Have fun. You can collage, cut
out pictures from magazines, or
find images off of Google
Images. Your final drafts should
be typed or done in ink.
The poem can rhyme, or not—
it’s up to you! About 8
lines, give or take, but more if
you like!