Assignments

6-A, 6-B, 6-C: Choose your next poem for recital in December.

6-D: Write a paragraph about your poem.

This Week's Word 11/9/09-11/13/09

Fragment

(noun)
1. a piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock"
2. an incomplete piece; "fragments of a play"
3. part of a sentence that has been punctuated as if it were a complete sentence. A sentence fragment is "Climbed up the rock."

(verb)
break up: break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented."

From L. fragmentum "a fragment, remnant," from root of frangere "to break."

 

Click here to listen to Dr. Turner reading the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling.

Click here to listen to Dr. Turner reading the poem "Rhyme" by Robert Pinsky.