Collection 3: Poems About Hurricanes

As you compare Rita Williams-Garcia's "After the Hurricane" and Natasha D. Trethewey's "Watcher: After Katrina, 2005," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 6's Collection 3: Mammoth Shakes and Monster Waves, poems about hurricanes, The Banana Tree, A Night to Remember
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  1. National Guard
    United States military reserves recruited by the states and equipped by the federal government; subject to call by either
  2. anchor
    a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast
  3. diorama
    a three-dimensional representation of a scene
  4. despair
    a state in which all hope is lost or absent
  5. depict
    show in, or as in, a picture
  6. mourn
    feel sadness
  7. curator
    the custodian of a collection, as a museum or library
  8. shrimper
    a vessel engaged in shrimping
  9. shard
    a broken piece of a brittle artifact
  10. shimmy
    dance a shimmy
  11. stoop
    small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house
  12. siphon
    move a liquid from one container into another by a tube
  13. carcass
    the dead body of an animal
  14. remains
    the dead body of a human being
  15. erasure
    deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
Created on Wed Jul 09 11:11:33 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 10 13:36:16 EDT 2014)

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