Name: ________________
Directions: Read the poem below carefully and fill out the chart regarding
voice, theme and word choice.
Hunger Moon
BY JANE COOPER
The last full moon of February
stalks the fields; barbed wire casts a
shadow.
Rising slowly, a beam moved toward
the west
stealthily changing position
until now, in the small hours, across
the snow
it advances on my pillow
to wake me, not rudely like the sun
but with the cocked gun of silence.
Hour: _______
I am alone in a vast room
where a vain woman once slept.
The moon, in pale buckskins,
crouches
on guard beside her bed.
Slowly the light wanes, the snow will
melt
and all the fences thrum in the spring
breeze
but not until that sleeper, trapped
in my body, turns and turns.
 Know: What do you Wonder: What can we Learn: How does the
know about voice? infer about the author voice of the poem and
and the tone/ mood? striking lines connect
to the emotion?

1. Voice is:
2. What makes a striking line in literature?
3. What literary device(s) are employed? How are they used?
4. What book or piece of writing do you love just because of how

it is written?

Voice is the lens through which the reader sees the story.

What is your lens? What is your story?

Your literary voice is exactly like no one elsesand even though itll

probably change over time, whether on purpose or by accidentit will

remain unique.

CATEGORY Excellent - 4 Good - 3 Satisfactory - 2 Needs Improvement - 1

THE WRITING Student devoted a lot of
PROCESS / time and effort to the
writing process and
EFFORT worked hard to make
the work a good read.
The work has no errors.
Student devoted Student devoted Student devoted little
adequate time and effort some time and effort time and effort to the
to the writing process and to the writing process writing process. It appears
worked to get the job but was not very that the student does not
done. The work may have thorough. Does care about the
one or two errors. enough to get by. assignment. The work
There are several has many errors.
errors.

TITLE The work has a title that The work has a title that The work has a title The work has no title
clearly relates to the relates to the work
work and adds interest
to the theme or
message of the work

NEATNESS The final draft of the The final draft of the work The final draft of the The final draft is not neat
 work is readable, clean, is readable, neat and work is readable and or attractive. It looks like
neat and attractive. It is attractive. It may have some of the pages are the student just wanted to
free of erasures and one or two erasures, but attractive. It looks like get it done and didnt care
crossed-out words. It they are not distracting. It parts of it might have what it looked like.
looks like the author looks like the author took been done in a hurry.
took great pride in it. some pride in it.

STYLE The work is written with The work is written with a The work is written The work lacks style and
a great sense of style. defined with style. somewhat with style. the thoughts did not come
The work has been well Thoughts are clear to read Thoughts are clear to out clearly on paper.
thought out and makes and understandable. a degree.
sense to the reader.

VOCABULARY The work is filled with The work includes many The work includes The work lacks description
descriptive vocabulary descriptive elements and some descriptive and does not allow the
that appeals to the is appealing. words and phrases. reader to visualize the
reader. poem.

TOTAL SCORE: __________________________________

Poem: 8-24 lines

Spoken word: At least one page double-spaced

Short Story: At least 2 pages double-spaced