Posted on 12/24/2014 8:31:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
EXCELLENT !!
I would venture to say it is unlikely that the person/s who wrote the question for the common core test understood what a theme was either.
A 'podium' is NOT the thing you stand behind. It's the raised platform on which you stand. The thing you stand behind is a LECTERN................PJ Media must be using Common Core journalists..............
Apparently the so called “Common Core” represents the perceived intelligence of its target demographic. Remember even 50 % of Whites and Asians fall below 100 on standard tests.
This little lady will make a fine citizen... let’s just hope she stays on the right track for the right reasons.
Although knowing what a theme is and how to detect it within literature is a very important skill. We were drilled in it at Catholic school & public High.
She’s smarter than Jeb Bush.
“She’s smarter than Jeb Bush.”
So is my cat.
This made me curious as I've never even heard of the poem. So... I looked it up and GUESS WHO IT WAS WRITTEN BY ?
Excellent Post TexasCajun!
I swore to myself against name calling on forums whether poster, commenter or subject. But, this subject, Jeb Bush, is an exception because I just can’t help myself. To be from Texas and support common core and amnesty and big government makes this man a Liberal, a moron and an idiot! And of the three labels, the first is the worst! He really should just join the Democratic Party and run for Prez as a Dim. He is an embarrassment to most Texans and does not stand a chance of carrying Texas in the GE.
And don’t even get me started on the fact he’s a Bush.
Here’s a link to the poem.
http://genius.com/Maya-angelou-life-doesnt-frighten-me-annotated
ALL I can say about it is that it’s the ‘black’ version of “I DON’T LIKE SPIDERS AND SNAKES” by Jim Stafford.
Frankly, I am surprised. I teach sixth grade and some of my students are 10. They type. They do a LOT of the work on computers. We just recently had a unit on themes in a story and my students all successfully answered a very similar question like the one in the example.
FWIW, my class is 15 students, some are US citizens, others Canadian and Aussie. I have Indonesian students, one from PNG, South Koreans and Japanese-Chinese heritage. Not all are native english speakers.
By the time we finished the unit, my students could do this work.
These programs have been around forever and will never go away. Sure, CC will eventurally be kicked to the curb but an even worse program will replace it.
Back in my school days, we had the New Math and had to take the California Achievement Test as if California was the be all to end all in educational standards. I was the IQ test (WISC, etc.) guinea pig and would point out mistakes which threw diagnosticians into tizzies - uh, this puzzle of a car doesn’t have headlights... hey, this is the maze for right handers and I’m left handed... yawn, the rule is if I miss 3 questions in 5, I get to stop so here’s 3 wrong answers.
Our kids were reading by age 3-4 but I had to sign an idiotic contract that we parents would help the school have our kids reading by the end of 1st grade. Yippee! The school gets a brownie point for all their effort! Many of their classmates were already reading so they begged the teacher to throw out the required reading text which had several instances of wrong tense used (bend/bent). Their teacher fought with the school but the kids still had to take all the reading tests which they completed in a few days rather than wasting the entire year. The teacher let them go to the library the rest of the year to read what they wished. Usually at 6th grade levels. Of course, she was fired. Upon HS graduation, all but one of those kids graduated with honors.
I go boo
Make them shoo
I make fun
Way they run
I won’t cry
So they fly
She was paid for that garbage? Can’t say I miss her.
LOL...very good!
Imagine then, trying to do this : “ write an essay that explains how the theme of the story is shown for the characters and how the theme of the poem is shown through the speaker. Include specific details from the story and the poem to support your efforts”
What could one say ? The theme was apparently Halloween (are more than single syllable words allowed in the essay?)
Specific details from the story are that she said “I” a lot.
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