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"Ego Tripping"

In her poem, Nikki Giovanni takes on the voice of the mother of powerful people and wonders of the world, who explains that "there may be a reason why" she can afford to take an ego trip.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 9 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Poetry, poemcrazy, Nikki-Rosa, We Real Cool, Fast Break, Identity, Ego Tripping, Hanging Fire, odes, Sonnet 18, In Response to Executive Order 9066, Young, Poetry Cafe, poems by Nikki Giovanni
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  1. fertile
    marked by great fruitfulness
    I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx
  2. divine
    resulting from heavenly providence
    I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
    that only glows every one hundred years falls
    into the center giving divine perfect light.
  3. nectar
    the food and drink of the gods
    I sat on the throne
    drinking nectar with allah
  4. gaze
    look at with fixed eyes
    I gazed on the forest and burned
    out the sahara desert
  5. swift
    moving very fast
    I am a gazelle so swift
    so swift you can't catch me.
  6. helm
    steering mechanism for a vessel
    My son noah built a new ark and
    I stood proudly at the helm
  7. intone
    recite musically; recite as a chant or a psalm
    Men intone my loving name
  8. deliver
    cause to be born
    My bowels delivered uranium
  9. ethereal
    of heaven or the spirit
    I am so perfect, so divine so ethereal so surreal
  10. comprehend
    become aware of through the senses
    I cannot be comprehended except by my permission
Created on Fri Sep 26 10:59:01 EDT 2014 (updated Fri Sep 26 16:43:20 EDT 2014)

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