"Where I'm From"

Here is a poetic list of what George Ella Lyon would say when someone asks her, "Where are you from?"

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 10 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Where I'm From, Funny in Farsi, Kaffir Boy, Pick One, If You Are What You Eat, Persepolis, poems about parents, Hunger of Memory, Thanksgiving: A Personal History, Time to Assert American Values, Rough Justice, On Civil Disobedience, On Surrender at Bear Paw Mountain, On Women's Right to Vote, Declaration of the Rights of the Child, School's Out for Summer, One Word of Truth, Hope, Despair, and Memory
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  1. carbon tetrachloride
    a colorless nonflammable liquid used as a solvent for fats and oils; because of its toxicity its use as a cleaning fluid or fire extinguisher has declined
    I am from clothes-pins
    from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride.
  2. glisten
    be shiny, as if wet
    I am from the dirt under the back porch.
    (Black, glistening,
    it tasted like beets.)
  3. forsythia
    any of various early blooming oleaceous shrubs of the genus Forsythia; native to eastern Asia and southern Europe but widely cultivated for their branches of bright yellow bell-shaped flowers
    I am from the forsythia bush
  4. limb
    any of the main branches from the trunk or a bough of a tree
    the Dutch Elm
    whose long gone limbs I remember
    as if they were my own
  5. fudge
    soft creamy candy
    I'm from fudge and eyeglasses
  6. perk
    gain or regain energy
    I'm from the know-it-alls
    and the pass-it-ons,
    from Perk up! and Pipe down!
  7. restore
    return to life; get or give new life or energy
    I'm from He restoreth my soul
  8. verse
    literature in metrical form
    and ten verses I can say myself
  9. branch
    a division of some larger or more complex organization
    I'm from Artemus and Billie's Branch
  10. auger
    a hand tool used to bore holes
    From the finger my grandfather lost
    to the auger
  11. sight
    the ability to see; the visual faculty
    the eye my father shut to keep his sight
  12. sift
    move as if through a sieve
    a sift of lost faces
  13. drift
    be in motion due to some air or water current
    to drift beneath my dreams
  14. moment
    a particular point in time
    I am from those moments
  15. bud
    start to grow or develop
    snapped before I budded--
    leaf-fall from the family tree
Created on Fri Oct 10 13:32:14 EDT 2014 (updated Mon Oct 13 15:09:07 EDT 2014)

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