"For the Young Yearning a Song of Green By Arnold Molina Azurin
Never tell the children trees are numb
They hold secrets
Of soil or sun: they lisp their quiet So leaves may flutter Their fragrant salutes, griefless goodbyes. Of lush rain or blooming: Times pilgrimage "Defacing Trees is Punishable."
Melodies of green
Exuberance to passerby. Twigs trip the wind
Within their trunks, rings are ingrained,
Telling of refrains
But upon the bark
Tender passages are etched: Jun loves Ester
Complete with the year, Arrow and heart border, despite the order
Stillness is yet their clearest expression In beckoning birds and Orchids onto their limbs. Now bear in mind, Each leaf falling
Is the precious page in their petition For still a verdant season"
1. Pick out the text evidence, the place where the story is written, lines which you can relate about history, and the group of people the poem context is connected to.
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
• DIRECTIONS
Using the poem "For the Young Yearning a Song of Green," the class needs to do the following:
Context: Text Evidence: Reasons
place where the story is written
Biographical
lines which you can relate about history
Historical
group of people the poem context is connected to
Sociocultural