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"America"

As a black immigrant from Jamaica in the early 20th century, Claude McKay experienced a double dose of outsider treatment. Yet, his poem about America expresses love and strength.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 11 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: A Cause Greater Than Self, The New Colossus, The Statue of Liberty Address, poems about America, America, America and I, What Is an American, Growing Up Asian in America, Let America Be America Again, The Four Freedoms, The Bill of Rights, What Is Freedom, Is the American Dream Still Possible, The Declaration of Independence, poems about immigrants, Money, A Raisin in the Sun, Who Burns, Roberto Acuna, Barack Obama, The Right to Fail
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  1. bitterness
    the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
    Although she feeds me bread of bitterness
  2. confess
    admit to a wrongdoing
    I will confess
  3. cultured
    marked by refinement in taste and manners
    I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
  4. vigor
    active strength of body or mind
    Her vigor flows like tides into my blood
  5. erect
    upright in position or posture
    Giving me strength erect against her hate
  6. flood
    the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto land
    Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.
  7. rebel
    a person who takes part in an armed insurrection
    Yet as a rebel fronts a king in state
  8. shred
    a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
    I stand within her walls with not a shred
  9. malice
    the quality of threatening evil
    Of terror, malice
  10. jeer
    a mocking or contemptuous remark
    not a word of jeer
  11. gaze
    look at with fixed eyes
    Darkly I gaze into the days ahead
  12. wonder
    something that causes feelings of amazement
    And see her might and granite wonders there
  13. unerring
    always accurate or correct
    Beneath the touch of Time's unerring hand,
    Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand
Created on Fri Nov 07 13:12:53 EST 2014 (updated Sun Nov 09 18:10:27 EST 2014)

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