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In "Ode to My Socks," Pablo Neruda knits a moral about how to approach the beauty of life, while in "Abuelito Who," Sandra Cisneros lists descriptions of a grandfather whose life is fading.

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. immense
    unusually great in size or amount or extent or scope
    my feet were two fish made of wool,
    two long sharks
    sea blue, shot through
    by one golden thread,
    two immense blackbirds,
    two cannons
  2. honor
    bestow rewards upon
    my feet were honored in this way
    by these heavenly socks
  3. decrepit
    lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
    my feet seemed to me unacceptable
    like two decrepit firemen
  4. temptation
    the desire to do something that you know you should avoid
    Nevertheless, I resisted the sharp temptation
    to save them somewhere as schoolboys
    keep fireflies
  5. sacred
    made, declared, or believed to be holy
    as learned men collect
    sacred texts
  6. resist
    withstand the force of something
    I resisted the mad impulse to put them
    in a golden cage and each day give them
    birdseed and pieces of pink melon.
  7. remorse
    a feeling of deep regret, usually for some misdeed
    Like explorers in the jungle
    who hand over the very rare green deer
    to the spit and eat it with remorse
  8. magnificent
    characterized by grandeur
    I stretched out my feet and pulled on
    the magnificent socks and then my shoes.
  9. moral
    the significance of a story or event
    The moral of my ode is this:
    beauty is twice beauty
    and what is good is doubly good
    when it is a matter of two socks
    made of wool in winter.
  10. coin
    a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
    Abuelito who throws coins like rain
    and asks who loves him
  11. diamond
    a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
    who tells me in Spanish you are my diamond
    who tells me in English you are my sky
  12. sour
    showing a brooding ill humor
    is sick
    is a doorknob tied to a sour stick
  13. snore
    breathe noisily during one's sleep
    is blankets and spoons and big brown shoes
    who snores up and down up and down up and down again
Created on Fri Sep 26 12:36:49 EDT 2014 (updated Fri Sep 26 16:43:06 EDT 2014)

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