"A Man"

In the poem by Nina Cassian, a man realizes that losing an arm would affect his actions, but it doesn't have to affect his heart.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 8 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: A Wrinkle in Time, The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, The Odyssey, A Man, Soldier home, Sonnet 116, Where I Find My Heroes, White House Funeral Sermon, O Captain! My Captain!, Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, A Definition of a Gentleman
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  1. suddenly
    quickly and without warning
    While fighting for his country, he lost an arm
    And was suddenly afraid
  2. half
    consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity
    From now on, I shall only be able to do things by halves
  3. reap
    gather, as of natural products
    I shall reap
  4. harvest
    the gathering of a ripened crop
    half a harvest
  5. accompaniment
    a musical part that supports other musical parts
    I shall be able to play either the tune
    or the accompaniment on the piano,
    but never both parts together.
  6. worst
    the least favorable outcome
    and worst of all
    I shall only be able to half hold
    my love close to me
  7. applaud
    clap one's hands or shout to indicate approval
    There will be things I cannot do at all,
    applaud for example
  8. set
    decide upon or fix definitely
    From that moment on, he set himself to do
  9. twice
    to double the degree
    everything with twice as much enthusiasm
  10. wing
    a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
    And where the arm had been torn away
    a wing grew.
Created on Sun Dec 14 18:15:45 EST 2014 (updated Sun Dec 14 22:43:19 EST 2014)

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