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2. An Interruption by Robert Foote A boy had stopped his car To save a turtle in the road; I was not far Behind, and slowed, And stopped to watch as he began To shoo it off into the undergrowth— This wild reminder of an ancient past, Lumbering to some Late Triassic bog, Till it was just a rustle in the grass, Till it was gone. I hope I told him with a look As I passed by, How I was glad he'd stopped me there, And what I felt for both Of them, something I took To be a kind of love, And of a troubled thought I had, for man, Of how we ought To let life go on where And when it can. In your Writer’s Notebook, summarize this poem using four vocab words from our current vocab unit.

4. 1. The courage that my mother had Went with her, and is with her still: Rock from New England quarried; Now granite in a granite hill. 5. The golden brooch my mother wore She left behind for me to wear; I have no thing I treasure more: Yet, it is something I could spare. 9. Oh, if instead she'd left to me The thing she took into the grave!- That courage like a rock, which she Has no more need of, and I have. “The Courage that My Mother Had” by Edna St. Vincent Millay Fill out the “ticket in” on your desk

5. The Balloon Of The Mind Hands, do what you're bid: Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed. William Butler Yeats What is this poem saying about our minds? Quote a line from the poem to support your claim.

6. CHOOSE THE single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other. -- Carl Sandburg