I am from…..

I am from ________________________ (an everyday item in your home)
from ________________ and _______________ (products or everyday items in your home)
I am from the ___________________________ (description of your home)
_________________________________ (a detail about your home – a smell, taste, or feel)
I am from the____________________ (plant, flower, natural item)
The __________________________ (plant or tree near your home)
whose long gone limbs I remember
as if they were my own.
I’m from _______________ and ________________ (a family tradition and family trait)
from ______________and ______________________ (family members)
I’m from _________________and _________________ (family habits)
and from_____________________. (family habit)
I’m from _______________ and _______________ (things you were told as a child)
and ____________________________________ (a song or saying you learned as a child)
I’m from_________________________ (a family tradition)
I’m from ____________ (place of birth) and ___________ (family ancestry, nationality or
place)
_______________and _________________ (family foods)
From ___________________________________ (a story about a family member)
___________________________ (detail about the story or person)
_____________________________ (description of family momentos, pictures or treasures.)
_________________________ (location of momentos – under my bed, on the wall, in my
heart)
______________________________________________ (more description if needed)
_______________________________________________
By (student name)__________________________ Date_____________
“I Am From” Poem Template

The Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Vocabulary 1.19

Vocabulary

~Recurring- occur again, periodically, or repeatedly.

Ex : Lots of people have recurring health problems, such as back pain or sore knees.

~Reproaching-(someone) in such a way as to express disapproval or disappointment.

Ex : The boy cried and his family watched him with distaste, his mother reproaching him: "Will you control yourself, Edmond?"

~Plodding- slow-moving and unexciting

Ex : every time i walked towards the bus stop i was plodding.

~Sordid- involving ignoble actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt.

Ex : Why is this sordid affair being in the pages of the New York Times?

~Intertwined- twist or twine together.

Ex : my boyfriend i intertwined together.

~Amid- surrounded by; in the middle of.

Ex : the robbers then run towards a dead end and they were amid by policies.

~Exists- have objective reality or being, living .

Ex : discovery channel had found a mermaid standing in a rock , and when it saw them, it went back to the water real fast . discovery channel now thinks mermaids exists.

~Identity- the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.

Ex : some people from north korea hide their identity in china because they don't want to be sent back.

~Contribute- something is to provide a part of the whole.

Ex : If we don’t stand up to a problem, we contribute to it, he said

Vocab 2.4

Organization	Point of view	Ideas	Vignette	Proverbs	Bias
Sentence fluency	Rhythm	Conventions	Irony	Analyze	Critique