This is using the top down model of reading; by bring meaning to the printed page though predications. During reading I would monitor Hannah’s comprehension through click and clunks (understanding and not understanding what has been read). When she did not understand something we would re-read the section, this helped Hannah’s comprehension as she would read a slower pace to understand the meaning of the text. Throughout reading the story I asked Hannah what was her reaction to a particular part and what else would she want to know about this topic. Hannah claimed she was shocked to find out that kids approached an injured bird and picked it up because she would have gone for help first.
in many ways these poems are similar, and very beautiful. In "A Barred Owl" and "The History Teacher", the two poets have similar meanings behind what their poems are saying, in that they both capture how a child's innocence is made by lies from adults. In "A Barred Owl", Richard Wilbur discusses how someone keeps the fears of life away from a child, for, "Words, which can make our terrors bravely clear, Can also thus domesticate a fear" (7-8). This is like "The History Teacher", by Billy Collins, because in the his poem, Collins introduces his interactions with the children with, "Trying to protect his students' innocence." (1).
In the poem In The Park, the woman pretends to someone that her little bundles-of-joy are just that, angelic children. As he walks away however, she confesses to nobody that ‘they have eaten me alive.’ This expression demonstrates the feeling of being alone and ignored. The mother in Suburban Sonnet expresses her anxiety in trying to achieve with small children. The mother is overwhelmed by how much she has to do – cook dinner, clean up after her children, keep them entertained and comfort them, presenting the views of many mothers. The language Gwen Harwood uses in these poems emphasises the feeling of drained energy and failure in other aspects of their lives (for example fugue playing).
In the poem A Barred Owl by Richard Wilbur, the author explains that an adult protects a child from the truth by telling her in lines 3-6 that she only heard an owl asking her a harmless question “Who cooks for you”. In the poem The History Teacher by Billy Collins, Mr. Collins depicts a school teacher who chooses to hide the truth of the world's past history from his students to protect their innocence. Both authors have trusted figures in the children’s lives who both have the same concept of lying and misleading the children into believing something that is false to in order to “protect” the child's innocence and for the sake of the adult's peace of mind. In the Barred Owl, the parents telling the child that the bird is asking her simple questions that shouldn’t make her scared is an example of personification (the Owl talking) and it also symbolizes a lack of foresight that is an effort to protect their daughter, but they have given her an unrealistic outlook on the world that can create its own future negative effects in the child's life. The poem The History Teacher while lacking personification it shares the same concept of symbolism in the same way, the teacher hides and shelters his students from the truth about history by telling his students made up pleasant events rather than cold hard facts of history to protect their innocence.
Throughout many of her poems Duffy writes of loss of innocence from numerous perspectives. She does so particularly in ‘In Mrs Tilschers Class’ and ‘Lizzie, Six’. ‘in Mrs Tilcher’s Class” showing the initial joys of childhood which are lost with the gaining of knowledge, and ‘Lizzie, Six’, a shocking portrayal of child abuse and loss of innocence. The theme of innocence presented in these two poems can be illuminated by Pugh’s poem ‘Sweet 18’, which is a dramatic monologue from an older woman, dreaming of a youthful boy with ‘the unknowing’ ease of his age. To begin with, Duffy writes about childhood as ultimately a loss of innocence as children ‘come of age’.
2007 Compare/Contrast Poem Essay In A Barred Owl and The History Teacher, both poets show the efforts by adults to slightly cover up the truth when children ask questions they are better off not knowing the full truth to at that age. However, each author used different literary devices to convey their ideas. Richard Wilbur used imagery and a rhyme scheme whereas Billy Collins used allusions and diction. Both Collins and Wilbur had the same idea however they conveyed it in opposite ways. They both used tone, but they were opposite.
A Dollhouse and “The Yellow Wallpaper” A Doll House play and “The Yellow Wallpaper” story have some similarities. Both the story and the play discuss how the wife is struggling with the way she lives with her husband and how at the end she ends her struggling. Also, both the story and the play describe the way the husband talks with his wife; both of the husbands do not use the wife’s name. Instead of the husband calling his wife’s name, he calls her “a blessed little goose” (“The Yellow Wallpaper” par. 53) and Torvald calls her “little lark” (A Dollhouse, act1, speech 4) and “my squirrel” (A Dollhouse, act1, speech 8).
'To kill a mocking bird' is a novel written from the perspective of Jean louise Finch looking back on her childhood. Reflecting on the town and the people with in it, there are various themes one particularly, Prejudice. Plenty of characters are prejudice but one in particular charter Atticus Finch leads by example and teaches his kids not to be prejudice. This theme is explored through out different chapters of the novel. In chapter 3 the theme prejudice is being explored through empathy, teaching respect for other people and how he changes peoples prejudice.
They appeal to the emotions of the audience by evoking the love a parent and child have. They sing “A lonely mother gazing out of the window staring at her son that she just can't touch” and, “If at any time he's in a jam she'll be by his side, but he doesn't realize he hurts her so much” (Waterfalls Lyrics). TLC then plays on every parent’s worst fear of losing their child “another body layin’ cold in the gutter” (Waterfalls Lyrics). TLC gives these examples everyone can relate to in order to capture the attention of young people. This story of a child’s corrupt choices and the heart wrenching emotions a mother feels, pulls the audience into their song.
Character judgment is also taught in fairy tales. In Little Red Riding Hood she had to figure out for herself who was good and bad, who to trust and not to trust. While taking an innocent trip to visit her grandmother in the woods, she figured out she could not trust the bad wolf for trying to eat her and her grandmother. She figures out that she can trust the good hunter who has come to help and protect them from the wolf. Teamwork is also taught in fairy tales.