"My Papa's Waltz"

Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the poet Theodore Roethke describes a moment that has different emotions for a son (the speaker in the poem) than for his father and mother.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 12 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: My Papa's Waltz, in just-, The Last Word, Mushrooms, I Remember, Invisible Man, Four Skinny Trees, Dirty Work, On Seeing England for the First Time, Speaking with Hands, The White Man's Burden, The Poor Man's Burden, Shooting an Elephant, Lindo Jong: Double Face, Stranger in the Village