Frontier Life

Frontier Lifeby Cindy Breedlove My stockings have a hole in them,I'm learning how to darn.Which means that I am mending themWith needle and some yarn.Ma says my dress is getting short,We must let out the hem.My only shoes have come apart,And Pa is patching them.The garden must be weeded,If we want food to eat.I pick those scratchy blackberriesSo we'll have something sweet.I help my Pa by milking BessAnd stake her out each day.I help my Ma by hanging clothesAnd watching Sissy play.I go to bed so tired,And get up before the sun.There's always work that's waiting.It never gets all done.But Ma has made Pa promiseTo have a family rule.If there's a teacher hired,I get to go to school! Matching Match each word from the poem to the correct definition. stockings coverings for the feet darn to fix by sewing hem edge on a piece of cloth or clothes yarn thick thread made of cotton or wool What is the author's purpose for writing this poem? to entertain us with a funny story from long ago to teach us how hard life was for frontier families long ago to persuade us to live like families did long ago to teach us unusual words from long ago Who is Bess? Why can't the girl in this poem fo to school? Why do you think Ma wants her daughter to go to school?