Collection 6: Poems About Workers

As you compare Carl Sandburg's "Chicago" and Rhina P. Espaillat's "Find Work" and Rita Dove's "My Mother Enters the Work Force," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 8's Collection 6: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, One Last Time, arguments about jobs for teenagers, poems about workers
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  1. brawl
    quarrel or fight noisily, angrily or disruptively
  2. brutal
    able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  3. wanton
    behave extremely cruelly and brutally
  4. burden
    weight to be carried or borne
  5. destiny
    the circumstances or condition to which someone is fated
  6. widow
    cause to be without a spouse
  7. anaesthetize
    administer an anesthetic drug to
  8. dictum
    an authoritative declaration
  9. composure
    steadiness of mind under stress
  10. truce
    a state of peace agreed to between opponents
  11. despair
    a state in which all hope is lost or absent
  12. alteration
    the act of making something different
  13. raglan sleeve
    a sleeve that extends in one piece to the neckline of a coat or sweater with seams from the armhole to the neck
  14. piecework
    labor paid for according to the quantity produced
  15. postpone
    hold back to a later time
Created on Fri Jul 18 13:16:47 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:17:11 EDT 2014)

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