1a. What do the speaker and his or her companion do right after school? Where do the two go? What do they get?
2a. In what way is the lunch served?
3a. At what speed do the two eat? What is left? What do they do as they eat?
1b. How can you tell that the speaker and his or her companion are eager to go to this place and make their order?
2b. How do the speaker and his or her companion feel about the way the food is served?
3b. Explain whether the speaker and his or her companion enjoy the meal. How can you tell?
4a. What signs are there about the ages of the speaker and his or her companion in the poem? How old do you think the speaker and his or her companion are?
4b. How do you think the speaker might feel as an adult looking back on this memory?
5a. Who do you think the speaker's companion is in relation to the speaker? How does the speaker seem to feel about this person? Who do you think the person named Kiki mentioned in the dedication might be?
5b. Twenty years from now, to whom do you think you might like to dedicate a poem? What memory might you share in this poem?
Image, Imagery, and Sensory Details. To what senses does the imagery in the poem most appeal? Explain whether this makes sense, given the poem's title.
1. Pretend you are a hot dog stand owner. Write a list of "fixings" that people can choose to put on their hot dogs.
2. Recall a time you ate something you really like. Describe that experience in a letter to a friend, using three examples of sensory detail.
3. Imagine you are opening your own restaurant. Make a menu of the items you would serve there. Include prices and descriptions.
Review. For each Word for Everyday Use from Unit 9, write one synonym, or word that means the same, or nearly the same, thing.
1. airs
2. askance
3. asphalt
4. dash
5. dote
6. downy
7. incessant
8. indulgence
9. magnanimous
10. seek
11. shun
12. skim
13. suffuse
14. supple
15. whirring
Sentence Fragments. A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence. For example, the phrase "Everything on the hot dogs" is a fragment because it doesn't have a subject or verb. To complete this fragment, you need to add a subject and a verb: "Sandra and Miguel put everything on the hot dogs." Review the Language Arts Survey, 3.31, "Correcting Sentence Fragments." For the sentences below, fix the fragments by adding a subject, predicate, and/or a verb.
1. Straight home from school. =
2. Smelled like fried chicken. =
3. Quarters on the counter. =
4. Good hot dogs. =
5. The little girls. =
6. In our hands. =
7. Looking for the lost dog. =
8. Helping me put away the dishes. =
9. The fierce wind. =
10. Six classes a day. =
