Unit 1

What is Courage?

Using Good Word Choices

A Story About a Real-Life Event is Called a Recount.


The authors of each of these poems made good word choices, which helps to create a picture in the readers mind of the actions in the poem.

For example, in 74th Street:

  • …she flops over backwards (better than "she fell over backwards")
  • …and smacks her head (much better than she "hits her head")
  • …and slides about six inches (much better than she "goes about six inches")
and in Courage :

  • Oh, how you ache to (much better than "Oh, how you want to")


Use effective word choices like these when you write your own poem.


Assignments

Assignments For Poems

You have two assignments:


  • write an original poem
  • add an entry to your Courage Concept Map