COMMISSION ON DIOCESAN SCHOOLS

ST. MARY’S ACADEMY – AGOO, LA UNION, INC.

Consolacion, Agoo, La Union
Email: smaagoo1946@gmail.com
Tel. No. (072) 609 – 1548 / 0966-771-3628
Deped School ID: 400070 / ESC School ID: 0100089

NAME: ______________________________________________ DATE: __________

SECTION: ____________ SCORE: _________
2ND LONG QUIZ
ENGLISH 9

I. IDENTIFICATION
Directions: Identify whether the following is a concern, a social issue, and a disposition
by labeling the statements appropriately.

___________________1. Lack of food to eat

___________________2. Poverty around the world
___________________3. War happening around the world
___________________4. Somebody in the family feels sick
___________________5. Clothes to wear
___________________6. Angry that no one comes to help
___________________7. Unemployment
___________________8. Things to do in a day
___________________9. Too many modules to work on and lacking time
___________________10. Continues to persevere despite the hardships met along the way

II. FILL IN THE BLANKS

Still I Rise
BY MAYA ANGELOU

You may 1.________ me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like 2.________, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with 3.________?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
4.________ in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of 5.________,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll 6.________.

Did you want to see me broken?

7.________ head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like 8.________,
Weakened by my 9.________ cries?

Does my 10.________ offend you?

Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own 11.________.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your 12.________,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
 COMMISSION ON DIOCESAN SCHOOLS
ST. MARY’S ACADEMY – AGOO, LA UNION, INC.
Consolacion, Agoo, La Union
Email: smaagoo1946@gmail.com
Tel. No. (072) 609 – 1548 / 0966-771-3628
Deped School ID: 400070 / ESC School ID: 0100089

But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my 13.________ upset you?

Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got 14.________
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the 15.________ of history’s shame

I rise
Up from a past that’s 16.________ in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, 17.________ and 18.________,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise
Into a daybreak that’s 19.________clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the 20.________ of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

III. ESSAY

TEXT-TO-SELF (5pts)
How can you relate the poem STILL I RISE in your life?

TEXT-TO-WORLD (5pts)
How can you relate the poem STILL I RISE with the people around the world?
 COMMISSION ON DIOCESAN SCHOOLS
ST. MARY’S ACADEMY – AGOO, LA UNION, INC.
Consolacion, Agoo, La Union
Email: smaagoo1946@gmail.com
Tel. No. (072) 609 – 1548 / 0966-771-3628
Deped School ID: 400070 / ESC School ID: 0100089

Prepared by:
Jayneane Flor M. Cerezo
Subject Teacher

Checked by:
Jerome H. Wania
Academic Coordinator JHS