Pre-Reading
Plot- The Poem starts off talking about the brothers who invented the first air plane. Then the poem goes on saying that many people tried to stop the war but it could not be done. In a little while American planes started to fly across the ocean to Japan. The author really expresses that the Japanese people were scared of that plane and how big of a power house the Americans where. He goes on saying that the Americans were smart and had better technology than the Japanese did. He expresses that when the American bombers got to Hiroshima they let the bombs free and it destroyed the city. The Japanese fighter jets tried to stop them but they couldn't and just flew into the mushroom cloud of the nuke. The author goes on by saying that countries where expanding their military weapons. The Americans kept bombing countries and finally a third world country got sick of it and flew their plane in the heart of America. The author then explains that there were a lot of casualties and people killed after the plane flew through the building.
Setting- The author of this poem first explains different settings in the war, and about the pacific and how countries were flying all over the globe trying to destroy other Countries. When the war was almost to an end, the setting switched to America, were a plane took off and flew across the pacific ocean. Then it mentions the city Hiroshima and what it looked liked after the war. The final setting started in Iraq and in Iraq, planes started to fly over the Atlantic ocean and ended up in America and then flew their planes into an important building.
The Wright Brothers- Orville
-Birth- He was born on August 19, 1871 in Dayton,Ohio
- Ethnicity- He was fluent in Dutch,German and English
-Occupation- He was famous for building the first airplane
-Death- He died January 30,1948
-Wilbur
-Birth- He was born on April 16,1867
-Ethnicity- He was fluent in Dutch, German and English
-Occupation- He was also famous for building the first air plane
-Death- May 30,1912
-Death- May 30,1912
Wilbur and Orville Wright grew up in a small town in Ohio. The Wright Brothers owned a bicycle shop. They both had a vast interest in science, at the time when human flight looked like it was possible, The Wright Brothers developed the first successful air plane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. After they invented the air plane they were classified as national heroes. They developed innovative technology and inspired imaginations around the world.
Born four years apart, brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright grew up in a small town in Ohio. They shared an intellectual curiosity and an aptitude for science, at a time when the possibility of human flight was beginning to look like a reality. Together, the Wright brothers developed the first successful air plane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and together they became national heroes. Considered the fathers of modern aviation, they developed innovative technology and inspired imaginations around the world.
