"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​