Our topic for Thursday is global poverty. 

Please view the short slideshow at http://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2010/08/10/129113632/picturingpossessions  OR the one at http://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2010/08/10/129107806/whatieat

Your assignment for Thursday is to write a few sentences about what "poverty" is.  Try to relate what you write to what you saw in the slideshow.