Drum Dream Girl | The Poetry Foundation
On an island of music in a city of drumbeats the drum dream girl dreamed of pounding tall conga drums tapping small bongó drums and boom boom booming with long, loud sticks on big, round, silvery moon-bright timbales. At home, her fingertips …
Drum Dream Girl Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary
Drum Dream Girl is inspired by the life of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga—a Chinese-African-Cuban drummer. The book focuses on her childhood in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It is a free-verse poem with 105 lines in 21 stanzas. The main theme of the poem is how Millo transformed gender roles in Cuban music. Specifically, Millo paved the way for ...
Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle - CommonLit
This poem is inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who broke a Cuban drumming tradition. Skill Focus: In this lesson, you’ll practice analyzing how an author’s word choice affects the meaning of a poem. Analyzing the effect of word choice means paying attention to descriptive words and phrases.
Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle - Poetry Foundation
This poem tells the story of a girl who dreams of playing drums in a place where only boys are allowed to play drums. She practices secretly until finally getting a chance to perform and inspiring a change in the tradition.
Drum Dream Girl Poem Analysis - SuperSummary
Drum Dream Girl is a free-verse poem that was published as a children’s book illustrated by Rafael López. There are 105 lines in 21 stanzas of varying lengths. In the book, most stanzas are given two adjacent pages filled with colorful art.
Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle (Paperback) - Scholastic
Inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a Chinese African Cuban girl who broke Cuba’s traditional taboo against female drummers, Drum Dream Girl tells an inspiring true story for dreamers everywhere.
so the drum dream girl had to keep dreaming quiet secret drumbeat dreams. At outdoor cafés that looked like gardens she heard drums played by men but when she closed her eyes she could …
Drum Dream Girl - a poem by Hamilton-theother51 - All Poetry
the brave drum dream girl dared to play tall conga drums small bongó drums and big, round, silvery moon-bright timbales. Her hands seemed to fly as they rippled rapped and pounded all the rhythms of her drum dreams. Her big sisters were so excited that they invited her to join their new all-girl dance band but their father said only boys ...
Drum Dream Girl – Bookshelf Briefs
2018年3月15日 · Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music. Ill. by Rafael López. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing. ISBN 9780-544-10229-3. SUMMARY/ANALYSIS. Margarita Engle’s poem tells the story in verse of a young girl’s experience in Cuba in the 1930s.
Drum Dream Girl – teachingliteracy
2016年4月4日 · Drum Dream Girl was written by Margarita Engle and illustrated by Rafael Lopez. The text was written in 2015 and is a Newberry Honor Winner. The story is of a little girl who struggles to follow her dreams is expressed through poetry and artistic illustrations.