"Choices"

Sometimes, making choices is about finding what you can do in a world that is filled with things you can't do. Nikki Giovanni develops this point in her poem "Choices."

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 7 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: The Road Not Taken, Choices, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Dust Tracks on a Road, Bad Boy, Why Couldn't I Have Been Named Ashley?, Phaethon, Daedalus and Icarus, Arachne, The Lion, the Fox, and the Stag, A Note from the Author, creation myths
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  1. job
    an object worked on; a result produced by working
    if i can't do
    what i want to do
    then my job is to not
    do what i don't want
    to do
  2. satisfied
    filled with contentment
    if i can't have
    what i want...then
    my job is to want
    what i've got
    and be satisfied
  3. least
    the superlative of `little' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree
    that at least there
    is something more
    to want
  4. understand
    perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
    ...then i must...go
    where the signs point
    though always understanding
  5. parallel
    being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
    parallel movement
    isn't lateral
  6. lateral
    situated at or extending to the side
    parallel movement
    isn't lateral
  7. express
    articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
    when i can't express
    what i really feel
  8. practice
    engage in or perform
    i practice feeling
    what i can express
  9. equal
    having the same quantity, value, or measure as another
    and none of it is equal
  10. mankind
    all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
    but that's why mankind
    alone among the animals
    learns to cry
Created on Thu Aug 21 14:39:35 EDT 2014 (updated Fri Aug 22 22:46:44 EDT 2014)

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