"Oranges" and "Jabberwocky" and "Fireflies"

Aside from being poems with one-word titles, Gary Soto's "Oranges," Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" and Paul Fleischman's "Fireflies" all use a lot of alliteration, so the lyrical lines roll off the tongue when read aloud.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 6 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Shakespeare dumbed down, Shakespeare's Life, Reading Shakespeare's Language, The Southpaw, A Book of Nonsense, The Millionaire Miser, Oranges; Jabberwocky; Fireflies, The Taming of the Shrew
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  1. rouge
    makeup consisting of powder applied to the cheeks
    She came out pulling
    At her gloves, face bright
    With rouge.
  2. aisle
    a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)
    We
    Entered, the tiny bell
    Bringing a saleslady
    Down a narrow aisle of goods.
  3. tier
    one of two or more layers one atop another
    I turned to the candies
    Tiered like bleachers
  4. release
    let go as from one's grip
    I took my girl's hand
    In mine for two blocks,
    Then released it to let
    Her unwrap the chocolate.
  5. distance
    a faraway point
    I peeled my orange
    That was so bright against
    The gray of December
    That, from some distance,
    Someone might have thought
    I was making a fire in my hands.
  6. shun
    avoid and stay away from deliberately
    Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
    The frumious Bandersnatch!
  7. foe
    a personal enemy
    Long time the manxome foe he sought
  8. galumph
    move around heavily and clumsily
    He left it dead, and with its head
    He went galumphing back.
  9. beamish
    smiling with happiness or optimism
    Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
  10. chortle
    laugh quietly or with restraint
    He chortled in his joy.
  11. parchment
    a superior paper resembling sheepskin
    Night
    is our parchment
  12. glimmer
    shine brightly, like a star or a light
    fireflies
    glimmering

    glowing
  13. calligrapher
    someone skilled in penmanship
    Insect calligraphers
    practicing penmanship
  14. flicker
    shine unsteadily
    We're fireflies
    flickering

    flashing
  15. fleeting
    lasting for a markedly brief time
    fleeting graffiti
    Fine artists in flight
Created on Fri Aug 15 20:11:04 EDT 2014 (updated Fri Aug 15 22:53:42 EDT 2014)

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