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"Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper"

As a creative writing professor with a law degree, Martin Espada sees many sides of a piece of paper.

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. plant
    a building for carrying on industrial labor
    At sixteen, I worked after high school hours
    at a printing plant
  2. manufacture
    put together out of artificial or natural components
    that manufactured legal pads
  3. leaning
    departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal
    Yellow paper
    stacked seven feet high
    and leaning
  4. brush
    sweep across or over
    then brushed red glue
    up and down the stack
  5. require
    need as useful, just, or proper
    No gloves: fingertips required
  6. perfection
    the act of making something complete and without defect
    for the perfection of paper
  7. smooth
    make free from roughness or irregularities
    smoothing the exact rectangle
  8. sluggish
    moving slowly
    Sluggish by 9 PM
  9. crevice
    a long narrow opening
    the hands
    would slide along suddenly sharp paper,
    and gather slits thinner than the crevices
    of the skin
  10. sting
    cause a sharp pain
    Then the glue would sting
  11. ooze
    release in drops or small quantities
    hands oozing
  12. legal
    relating to or characteristic of the profession of law
    I knew that every legal pad
    was glued with the sting of hidden cuts
  13. burn
    cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
    that every open lawbook
    was a pair of hands
    upturned and burning.
Created on Sun Nov 09 16:11:24 EST 2014 (updated Sun Nov 09 18:06:01 EST 2014)

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