P o e t r y This Team The Silver Spokes By : Bethania, Ingrid, Nico, Wilbert

This Team The Silver Spokes By : Arnold Adoff What kind of basketball team can spin and fly and pop wheelies?

Can spin and fly and clutch And double Clutch And Pop the s h a r p e s t wheelchair wheeeelies as they D r I b b l e pass catch and D r I v e on r o l l I n g down the floor To block and pass and shoot and score I need to make that happen On my moving feet

dapat berputar dan terbang dan kopling(clutch) dan dobel (dua kali lipat ) kopling dan membentur seperti roda kursi, wheeeelies seperti mereka menggiring bola melewati pemain lawan dan berjalan bergulir di lantai untuk mencetak, melalui, menyerang dan mendapat nilai saya perlu membuat apa yang terjadi itu terdapat di gerakan kakiku

Connect to Your Life Do you like the fast action of basketball? What part of basketball do you ilike best? Why? yes i like the fast action of basketball. the part of basketball i like is SHOOT Because that part to decide the ball is in or out.

Key to The Poem The form of the poem is the way the words and letters are placed on the page. Sometimes the form of a poem can show movement. What kind of movement do you think his poem shows? Like a basketball game.

Think It Through 1.Think about the title and lines 5-6. What is different about this basketball team? What other words give clues? This basketball is just not a normal basketball but this basketball game is using wheelchair.. Wheelchair,wheelies, drive, and rolling. 2. Why are the letters of some words in this poem spread out? To show the movement of the word 3. What are the “mving feet” in the last line ? The player wanted to playing basketball in hi real feet. 4. What do you think are the challanges of playing basketball in wheelchairs? The challanges is the player are not just dribble, catch, and scoring but they must rolling the wheelchair until they play.

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1.Spaced out in an irregular way. 2.Spread out 3.Spread out 4.The first line 5.yes 6. Line 8: dribble  to bounce Pass  quick Catch  open Line 9: drive and rolling  moving 7. Yes, This poem remain me of basket ball games.

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