Geraldine Moore the Poet Comprehension

16. Poor people got a hard row to hoe the superintendent said as Gerry passed him.

Mrs Glady said to Gerry looks like you will be staying with me for awhile when she saw the furniture coming out of the apartment house.

19. Geraldine said she couldn't write no pretty poem because nothing lovely is happening in my life

Mrs Scott said that was the best poem she ever heard and Gerry was a poet. The kids smiled at her or kidded her about being the school poet.

17. Anita said to Gerry she didn't know what they were going to do. She said everything will be alright as soon as Ma gets well.

In math Gerry added up a column of figures in her notebook- the rent the light and gas bills, a new gym suit and some socks. She turned the shapes into houses-maybe they would move somewhere else

2. Stoop

Is a porch, a stairway entrance

21. Gerrys poem

I haven't seen a flower since Mother's Day The sun doesn't shine on my side of the street No robins sing The rain and bills come The men move out the furniture Infant write no pretty poem

4. Cylinders

Long, round objects, solid or hollow with flat ends such as a soup can

6. Manufacturing

Making products, especially on a large scale or with machinery

9. Poor section of city

3 hot dogs guys are left and nobody's got hot dog money around here-business is bad

5. Formula

A combination of symbols used in mathematics to state a rule or principle

12. Geraldine's mother was sick and went away, Gerry had been on her own except....

Every Thursday miss Gladys Geraldine's neighbor came to clean the apartment and made a meatloaf for dinner.

14. Anita

Geraldine's older sister. Gerry lived with her older sister. Anita was living at home waiting for her husband to get home from the army.

10. Anita

Geraldine's sister

18. Mrs Scott-English teacher

Says a poem is your own special way of saying what you feel and what you see- some poets write about the light-that makes your world sunny or a picture or image.

8. Blames the dog for chewing up her gym uniform and getting her into trouble and now holes in her socks

She watches Mrs. Watson's dog 2 days a week for $1.00

15. On her way home from school Gerry spotted a pile of furniture and boxes outside her building. She had seen this before but the ironing board looked familiar, and the big ugly sofa.

Sofa had a hole in it from Mrs Watson's dog. So she knew it was hers

1. Monitors

Students with a special duty

3. Superintendent

The person who manages and takes care of an apartment building

7. Geraldine

Uses rubber bands to hold up her socks, pokes holes in socks

11. Geradine

Was glad she didn't have to eat the free lunches anymore in high school she went home for lunch.

13. During this time Geraldine never ate breakfast so...

in social studies class she scraped her feet on the floor when her stomach would growl