Word Up
To breathe in.
Inhale
The librarian the poem is named for.
Mrs. Long.
What the speaker does with the books once she has them.
Holds them close to her chest and takes them home.
Reading.
Topic.
S or Speaker
A narrw street or path; a way through.
Corridor.
The poet who wrote this poem.
Nikki Giovanni
What the speaker listens to under her pillow at night.
The radio.
Reading can take you places you cannot go in real life.
Theme.
The letter or (word) we use to show something is an event that happens.
E or Event
What you pick when you cannot have what you really want.
Resort.
The relative whose porch the speakers reads on.
Her grandmother.
Where the speaker goes to get books (the street name).
The library on Vine Street.
The difference between a topic and a theme.
Topic is what it is about; theme is what it says about it.
This is the question you ask yourself to tell if something is S or E
Is this something she IS, or something she DOES (or something that HAPPENS).
To make people feel embarrassed or ashamed in front of other people.
Humiliate
The poem calls the speaker this in the subtitle.
A troubled little girl.
Where Mrs. Log has to travel to borrow the books the speaker wants.
The big library uptown.
One of these is a theme. Which one?
(a) The poem is about a library.
(b) Small kindnesses from adults can change a child's whole life.
B.
The word for writing notes about a piece of writing.
Annotate.
Doing something anyway, even after something happened that would have stopped most people.
Nonetheless
What Mrs. Long always asked the speaker when she came in.
A troubled little girl.
The reason Mrs. Long can't just check the books out herself.
Segregation barred Black residents from the main library.
Name any theme of this poem and a line that proves it.
(Different answers)
The three notebooks/folders/binder tabs you'll need for this class.
3 - Vocabulary, Read & Respond, and Knowledge journals.