4th Grade Unit 10 Assessment
Name:_______________________________________ Date: _________
The World is a Stage Summative (poetry)
Text 1- The Tale of Violet Beauregarde
1 “Dear friends, we surely all agree
2 There’s almost nothing worse to see
3 Than some repulsive little bum
4 Who’s always chewing, chewing gum.
5 So please believe us when we say
6 That chewing gum will never pay;
7 That sticky habit’s bound to send
8 The chewer to a sticky end…
9 Did any of you ever know
10 A person called Miss Bigelow?
11 This dreadful woman saw no wrong
12 In chewing, chewing all day long.
13 She went on chewing till, at last,
14 Her chewing muscles grew so vast
15 That from her face her giant chin
16 Stuck out just like a violin.
17 But now, how strange! Although she slept,
18 Those massive jaws of hers still kept
19 On chewing, chewing through the night,
20 Even with nothing there to bite.
21 And with the most tremendous chew
22 They bit the lady’s tongue in two.
23 And that is why we’ll try so hard
24 To save Miss Violet Beauregarde
25 From suffering an equal fate.
26 She’s still quite young. It’s not too late,
27 Provided she survives the cure.
