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The Living Photograph Worksheet

The document provides the text of a poem titled "The Living Photograph" along with comprehension questions about the poem. It describes a grandmother in a photograph as tall and prim wearing a broderie anglaise dress with a pleated skirt, flat shoes, and a grey bun. Her hand is holding the narrator's hand. As the poem continues, the grandmother becomes small and hunched over in the photograph. Her soup forgets to boil and she goes to an awful place that grandmothers go. The questions that follow ask about details in the poem, what happened to the grandmother, the narrator's understanding of death, and the moral lesson of the poem.

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The Living Photograph Worksheet

The document provides the text of a poem titled "The Living Photograph" along with comprehension questions about the poem. It describes a grandmother in a photograph as tall and prim wearing a broderie anglaise dress with a pleated skirt, flat shoes, and a grey bun. Her hand is holding the narrator's hand. As the poem continues, the grandmother becomes small and hunched over in the photograph. Her soup forgets to boil and she goes to an awful place that grandmothers go. The questions that follow ask about details in the poem, what happened to the grandmother, the narrator's understanding of death, and the moral lesson of the poem.

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Poem The Living Photograph: HOTs Questions + Answers

Complete the poem. Try not to refer to the text.

The Living Photograph


My small grandmother is tall there,
straight-back, white broderie anglaise (1)___________________,
pleated (2)____________, flat shoes, grey bun,
a kind, old (3)_________ round her eyes.
Her big hand (4)____________mine,
white hand in black hand.
Her sharp blue eyes look her own (5) ______________ in the eye.
It was (6) __________ after all; that look.
My tall grandmother became small.
Her back round and (7) _____________.
Her (8) _____________ forgot to boil.
She went to the (9) ____________ place grandmothers go.
Somewhere unknown, (10) ___________.
But there she is still,
in the photo with me at (11)____________,
the crinkled smile is still (12) _____________ , breathing.

1. Why do you think the grandmother wore flat shoes?


__________________________________________________________________________________

2. Why do you think the grandmother became small?


__________________________________________________________________________________

3. Why did the grandmother’s back become round and hunched?


__________________________________________________________________________________

4. According to the persona, where has the grandmother gone and why ‘there she is still’?
__________________________________________________________________________________

5. Why is the smile described as still living and breathing?


__________________________________________________________________________________

6. Why did the grandmother go to that awful place?


__________________________________________________________________________________

7. Why was the place described as awful?


__________________________________________________________________________________

8. How do we know that the grandmother looked prim and proper?


__________________________________________________________________________________

9. ‘White hand in black hand’


What other feature mentioned in the stanza tell us the grandmother’s race? Provide reason to support
your answer.
Feature : __________________________________________________________________
Reason : __________________________________________________________________

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10. ‘Her soup forgot to boil’
What other thing do you think the grandmother was likely to forget to do? Give a reason to support
your answer.
Thing : __________________________________________________________________
Reason : __________________________________________________________________

1. Why do you think her soup forgot to boil?


__________________________________________________________________
2.
Quality Evidence
Kind
Protective/caring
Fearless/ courageous
Friendly

3. 'she went to the awful place grandmothers go...


Do you think the persona understands about death? Provide a reason for answer,
Understanding: __________________________________________________________________.
Reason: ___________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________.

4. 'But there she is still'


How do you think the persona feels when she looks at the photograph? Provide a reason for your
answer.
Feeling : __________________________________________________________________
Reason : ___________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________.

5. Give one moral value one can learn from the poem.
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________

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