Question

Study the poem given below and decide which grade/class (level of learners) would you teach it to. Justify your choice of level of learner by specifying aspects of the poem. Also prepare five questions/activities that you plan to use to teach the poem.
The boy was barely five years old.
We sent him to the little school
And left him there to learn the names
Of flowers in jam jars on the sill
And learn to do as he was told.
He seemed quite happy there until
Three weeks afterwards, at night,
The darkness whimpered in his room.
I went upstairs, switched on his light,
And found him wide awake, distraught,
Sheets mangled and his eiderdown
Untidy carpet on the floor.
I said “Why can’t you sleep? A pain?
He snuffled, gave a little moan,
And then he spoke a single word:
‘Jessica.’ The sound was blurred.
‘Jessica? What do you mean?
‘A girl at school called Jessica,
She hurts’ – he touched himself between
The heart and stomach – ‘she has been
Aching here and I can see her.’
Nothing I read or heard
Instructed me in what to do.
I covered him and stroked his head.
‘The pain will go, in time.’ I said.

Answer 1

I think level of learners should be from class 5 to 7.
The question I will pick from the poem are;
1;Why he was sent to School?
2;How old was the little boy?
3;What single word did the little boy spoke?
4;What was the name of the girl at schools?
5;What was the sound when he spoke a single word?

Answer 2

Study the poem given below and decide which grade/class (level of learners) would you teach it to. Justify your choice of level of learner by specifying aspects of the poem. Also prepare five questions/activities that you plan to use to teach the poem.