Collection 4: Poems About Communication

As you compare Audre Lorde's "Hanging Fire" and Pat Mora's "Teenagers," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 8's Collection 4: Marigolds, poems about communication, When Do Kids Become Adults?, articles about age requirements for drivers
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  1. betray
    disappoint, abandon, or prove undependable to
  2. graduation
    the successful completion of a program of study
  3. melody
    a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
  4. disappear
    get lost, as without warning or explanation
  5. pace
    walk with slow or fast steps
  6. whisper
    a light noise, like the noise of leaves blowing in the wind
  7. code
    a system for transmitting messages in brevity or secrecy
  8. familiar
    well known or easily recognized
  9. stretch
    become longer by being pulled
  10. pearl
    a smooth round structure in the shell of a clam or oyster
Created on Sun Jul 13 19:57:07 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:35:48 EDT 2014)

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