September
28
ELA 20: Sept 28 Redo Poetry Questions…
- We have recently studied two poems and students were given very typical questions related to analyzing those poems. The questions covered content such as author’s purpose, style created by the author, the theme and evidence to support it, who the speaker of the poem is along with what point of view it is written from. All of these questions surround the elements of literature that this group has been learning / reviewing since their last semester of English last year. They should be quite comfortable in understanding what each element involves and how to properly respond to it.
I was displeased, though, that some were copying answers from other students. They are not developing their own skills in this regard. I was also unimpressed that a majority of answers were incomplete, because it was only a question sheet and not to be marked. I can understand this, as long as that student understands that it’s incomplete and would do better for marked work.
- Today, students were given back these question sheets, but they were marked – not marked with numbers but corrected just the same to indicate to them where they were lacking or wrong. This should indicate to them what type of result to expect had this been an exam instead. They also had to focus on answering the questions entirely alone.
- They were also interrupted because they had to go for their group and individual pictures.