Success by Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory! As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Burst agonized and clear!

Paraphrase Emily Dickinson’s poem. (To paraphrase a text means to express its meaning in your own words.)

Acronymic Sentence -a technique for remembering facts by creating a sentence from words whose fist letters help you remember the facts.

How to use it… 1. Write the facts. 2. Underline the first letter of each fact. 3. Create and write a sentence using words that begin with the underlined letters.

Examples In math, order of operations: parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.

On your own: Write facts you can remember using the acronymic sentence technique.