"Frederick Douglass"

With his poem, Robert Hayden honors a man whose life made freedom possible for future generations.

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. liberty
    personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression
    When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty
  2. instinct
    inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to stimuli
    when it belongs at last to all,
    when it is truly instinct
  3. reflex
    an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
    brain matter, diastole, systole,
    reflex action
  4. gaudy
    tastelessly showy
    when it is more
    than the gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians
  5. former
    belonging to some prior time
    this man, this Douglass, this former slave
  6. exile
    expel from a country
    this Negro
    beaten to his knees, exiled
  7. vision
    the experience of seeing
    visioning a world
    where none is lonely
  8. alien
    anyone who does not belong in a given environment
    none hunted, alien
  9. superb
    surpassingly good
    this man, superb in love and logic, this man
    shall be remembered
  10. rhetoric
    high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
    Oh, not with statues' rhetoric,
    not with legends and poems and wreaths of bronze alone,
    but with the lives grown out of his life, the lives
    fleshing his dream of the beautiful, needful thing.
Created on Sun Dec 14 21:13:33 EST 2014 (updated Sun Dec 14 22:41:45 EST 2014)

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