Discussion and Activities

• Students take turns reading the poem aloud.
• Discuss the poem's rhythm.
• Students look up the word "attire" if they don't know what it means. What is the attiring and the disattiring of the trees?
• Why does Williams describe the moon as liquid?
• How do the trees prepare their buds for winter?
• What makes the the trees wise?
• Identify any use of simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification and idiom in this poem.
• Identify the poetic style used in this poem.
• Write a paragraph in your own words describing a scene in your memory that is similar to the scene Williams describes in his poem.

P.A.S.S.

• Grade 4: Reading - 1.2a,4b; 2.1; 3.1b,2d; 4.1b,3ab. Writing - 2.5a
• Grade 5: Reading - 1.1b,2ab,4b; 2.1; 3.4d; 4.1b,3abd. Writing - 2.1,7a
• Grade 6: Reading - 1.1ab,3ab; 2.1; 3.4d; 4.1a,3acd. Writing - 2.4b,6a,7
• Grade 7: Reading - 1.1,3c; 2.1; 3.1c; 4.3ac. Writing - 2.1c,4c.6a,8
• Grade 8: Reading - 1.1,3c; 2.1; 4.3a. Writing - 2.1a,5c,7a,8