UNIVERSIDAD LATINOAMERICANA DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA                         

Prof. Randall Torres Quirós

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Instruction #1:

      Read the poem: “Daily” by Naomi Shihab Nye and analyze the following elements:

a- Look up the difficult words you don’t understand in the dictionary. (No less than 5 words accepted) => (5pts-general)

b- Identify and write 4 sentences written in the Simple Present Tense. (4pts-1pt each)

c-  Short Composition:

Write a short paragraph (10 lines) explaining the ideas you are getting from the poem as well   

as the relationship in your daily life. (10pts). Use some of the grammatical elements you have learned so far.

 

 

DAILY

Naomi Shihab Nye

 

These shriveled seeds we plant,

corn kernel, dried bean,

poke into loosened soil,

cover over with measured fingertips

These T-shirts we fold

into perfect white

squares

These tortillas we slice and fry to crisp strips

This rich egg scrambled in a gray clay bowl

This bed whose covers I straighten

smoothing edges till blue quilt fits brown blanket

and nothing hangs out

This envelope I address

so the name balances like a cloud

in the center of the sky

This page I type and retype

This table I dust till the scarred wood shines

This bundle of clothes I wash and hang and wash again

like flags we share, a country so close

no one needs to name it

The days are nouns: touch them

The hands are churches that worship the world.