Poems to analyze

How to read and analyze a poem

As promised in the previous post on kicking IB Language A Paper One's butt, Nerdvark has gone at a poem -- in this case "I Am Tourist" by Adrian Mitchell, as seen on last year's May exam -- and peeled its layers. Here is the poem (in fact, the actual page off the exam) after Nerdvark got through with it (Nard contributed by stamping a purple pig-head at the bottom): Nerdvark's colour-coded annotations of "I Am Tourist" by Adrian Mitchell, for IB English Paper 1 Are you trying to get level 7…

"I'm Still A Person" A Poem About Bullying. This stuff is cruel. It's sick that people I love have to suffer it. This poem is for people who are somehow involved with this. And also to people that are being bullied right now, if it matters, I will always be there for you. Even if it's through this screen :). Warning, this is a dark poem. Didn't realized till after I wrote it. Sorry! Thank you for reading!

And miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost

How do you plan for your small group instruction? Do you follow a program where all students receive the same strategies, or do you customize the interventions you teach to meet the needs of your students? As a Literacy Specialist, my students are placed into flexible, target-specific reading groups based on multiple assessments at the beginning of the year. Our pull-out program is very flexible, so targets and groups often change as students make progress and meet their goals. We do not…

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