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.
She’s smarter than Jeb Bush.
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 ?
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.