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

AndPop 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 ) koplingdan membentur seperti roda kursi, wheeeelies seperti mereka

menggiring bola melewati pemain lawan dan berjalan bergulir di lantaiuntuk mencetak , melalui , menyerang dan mendapat nilai

saya perlu membuat apa yang terjadi ituterdapat 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.

WorkBook

Page 99

1. Spaced out in an irregular way.2. Spread out3. Spread out4. The first line5. yes6. Line 8: dribble to bounce

Pass quickCatch openLine 9: drive and rolling moving

7. Yes, This poem remain me of basket ball games.

Thanks For Listening :)