Which aspect of “Ode to My Mother’s Hair” are influenced by the traditional form of the ode? Which aspect of the poem are less traditional? Use the graphic organizer to analyze specific elements of the poem.

Suppose you connect a battery to a small light bulb with a single wire. what do you think will happen? explain your answer.

Buck did not cry out. he did not check himself, but drove in upon spitz, shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat. they rolled over and over in the powdery snow. spitz gained his feet almost as though he had not been overthrown, slashing buck down the shoulder and leaping clear. twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled. read this passage. explain what the conflict shows about buck and spitz.

How does douglass contrast his childhood on colonel lloyd’s plantation with this arrival on baltimore at the auld’s?