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"My Mother Pieced Quilts"

Snuggle up to this list that's patched together from threads in the poem by Teresa Palomo Acosta, and warm yourself with family-oriented images of quilts and quilt-making.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 10 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: What Is Cultural Identity, Ethnic Hash, Two Kinds, Honestly Frida, Legal Alien, By Any Other Name, HAPA, Where Worlds Collide, My Mother Pieced Quilts, Everyday Use, Two Ways to Belong in America, An Indian Father's Plea
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Full list of words from this list:

  1. canvas
    a heavy, closely woven fabric
    but it was just that every morning I awoke to these
    october ripened canvases
  2. communion
    sharing thoughts and feelings
    these strips of gentle communion cotton and flannel
    nightgowns
    wedding organdies
    dime store velvets
  3. oblong
    deviating from a shape by being elongated in one direction
    how you shaped patterns square and oblong and round
  4. lounge
    sit or recline comfortably
    me lounging on your arm
  5. somber
    lacking brightness or color; dull
    whether to shape a five-point star from the
    somber black silk you wore to grandmother's funeral
  6. caravan
    a procession traveling together in single file
    You were the caravan master at the reins
  7. testimony
    something that serves as evidence
    delivering yourself in separate testimonies
  8. plunge
    cause to be immersed
    oh mother you plunged me sobbing and laughing
    into our past
  9. withstand
    resist or confront with resistance
    sewn hard and taut to withstand the thrashings of twenty-five years
  10. stretch
    occupy a large, elongated area
    stretched out they lay
    armed/ready/shouting/celebrating
    knotted with love
    the quilts sing on
Created on Tue Oct 07 12:20:05 EDT 2014 (updated Wed Oct 08 18:13:43 EDT 2014)

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