Poem | Evaluation | Reflection Questions
Evaluating a Poem by a 12-Year-Old Holocaust Victom
1. First, read the poem once to understand Eva Pickova's message.
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by Eva Pickova |
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| Today the
ghetto knows a different fear, Close in its grip, Death wields an icy scythe. An evil sickness spreads a terror in its wake, The victims of its shadow weep and writhe. Today a father's heartbeat tells his fright And mothers bend their heads into their hands. Now children choke and die with typhus here, A bitter tax is taken from their bands. My heart still beats inside my breast While friends depart for other worlds. Perhaps it's better — who can say? — Than watching this, to die today? No, no, my God, we want to live! Not watch our numbers melt away. We want to have a better world, We want to work — we must not die! |
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2. Have one person of your pair leave this poem on his monitor screen and have the other person connect to our poetry rubric on her monitor screen.
3. Assume the role of teachers again. How would the two of you evaluate this poem according to our rubric? Type in your scores according to the rubric categories:
| One-Two Sentence Explanation of Why Book Is Titled Night | Poem's Use of Imagery | Suitability of Imagery Choices for Book's Title Explanation |
| Poem's Imagery Located in Night | How Web Page's Pictures Represent Imagery | Hypertext Linking of Web Page |
4. Did this poem do better or worse than the previous poem according to our rubric?
5. What are this poem's best images that show instead of telling? Make a list with your partner.
