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Dec. 21st, 2007 09:33 am
I'm grading the finals on poetry and poetry vocab today (yesterday was the last day of the semester).
I just have to show you one answer a kid gave me. It shows real imagination!
They were to be analyzing the poem "Stopping by Woods..." by Robert Frost.
The final lines of which are:
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
The question was "How does the meter reinforce the meaning of the poem?"
The student correctly identified that meter as 8, then answered the question this way:
"If you turn an 8 sideways then it becomes infinity, which shows how many miles he has to go before he sleeps."
No credit, but very creative!
I just have to show you one answer a kid gave me. It shows real imagination!
They were to be analyzing the poem "Stopping by Woods..." by Robert Frost.
The final lines of which are:
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
The question was "How does the meter reinforce the meaning of the poem?"
The student correctly identified that meter as 8, then answered the question this way:
"If you turn an 8 sideways then it becomes infinity, which shows how many miles he has to go before he sleeps."
No credit, but very creative!
