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4. After reading the poem several times, return to the TP-CASTT graphic organizer and write a brief paragraph to summarize the poem and state its meaning.
Setting a Purpose for Reading
• As you read this newspaper article, think about its audience and purpose. Write ideas you have in the My Notes section.
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.
Soldier home after losing
by Gale Fiege his leg in Afghanistan
1 LAKE STEVENS – It started out as just another day in the Zabul Province of southern Afghanistan.
2 On Sept. 18, 2010, Army Pfc. Tristan Eugene Segers, a 2002 graduate of Lake Stevens High School, was driving his armored patrol vehicle when a homemade bomb exploded in the road underneath Segers’ floorboard.
3 One of the vehicle’s 800-pound tires was found a half-mile away.
4 Just below his knee, Segers’ right leg was gone. He had shrapnel sticking out of his
eyeballs, face and arms.
5 After nearly two years of surgeries and rehabilitation in Texas, Segers, a handsome 28-year-old, moved back to Snohomish County last week in time to celebrate Independence Day with his folks in the home where he grew up.
my Notes
article
Grammar USaGe
Appositives
An appositive is a noun
or noun phrase that gives further detail or explanation of the noun next to it. An appositive is not necessary to the meaning of the sentence and is usually set off by commas. For example, the writer of this article uses an appositive in the second paragraph to describe Eugene Segers: “... Eugene Segers, a 2002 graduate of Lake Stevens High School, was driving...”
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shrapnel: small fragments of a bomb after it explodes
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