Litercy Essay

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Index Question 1 3 1.1 Learning outcomes and Assessment Standards 4 Assessment standards for learning outcome 3 5 Assessment standards for learning outcome 4 6 Assessment standards for learning outcome 5 6 Assessment standards for learning outcome 6 7 1.2 Combrink’s model 7 Phase 1: Preparing to read a text 7 Phase 2: The first reading of the text 7 Phase 3: Opportunity for individual response 7 Phase 4: Opportunity to share responses with others 8 Phase 5: Developing and structuring responses 8 Phase 6 and 7: Comprehension activities and a re-evaluation of initial response 8 Phase 8: Evaluation 8 1.3 Questions for homework based on the poem 9 1.4. Second homework question based on poem 9 Question 2 10 Bibliography 18 Question 1 The Shadow At first the shadow smiled. Darkness has no weight, and its smile was as empty as the air. Watching it haunt me, dancing, I imagined it had a purpose, That if I left it long enough it would go away. 5 But night-time became my prison. Who would save me from my shadow? None, but me; My only weapon, light. I slept; but my dreams were smashed, shattered, splintered. 10 I fear the stillness, the quiet For in stillness shadows crept, A fear of sleep, For blackness behind my eyes, in my dreams, began to move, A fear of tiredness, 15 For I was getting weak. Shadows: how they crawled, Always out of sight; Forever waiting, Breathing, Slipping, 20 Climbing, Disappearing, Light! Light kept me alive, But light was killing me, 25 Throbbing into my eyes, Glaring into my brain, A sea of pain, drowning me. A shadow! Tiny, slithering, flitting and flickering, 30 It hugged the far corners, Eyeing me. And now it began to grow, Faintly, slowly, Battling the steady light,
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