2014년 10월 22일 수요일

EEE Week 6 Assignment



          As to choosing an appropriate literature for high school students, the most famous one in our class is “To a Daughter Leaving Home.” Even though the other poems have some good reasons to be taught in high school, there must be better and stronger reasons because half of the class selected the poem as the most proper literature for high school students. Many students posted the essay regarding the reasons why they chose the poem on their blogs. Two main reasons could be found on three different blogs. According to three bloggers, “To a Daughter Leaving Home” is suitable for high school students since it may cause students to feel sympathy and it has easy yet challenging vocabularies for students.    
All of the three bloggers believe that students would be easily able to relate the poem to their real life. Hyewon Choi says that some opportunities to remind of their childhood will be given to students when they read the poem (2014.10.12). In addition, Hyeonkyeom Cho points out that because they are at the stage where they should be ready to leave their parents like the girl in the poem, high school students would feel sympathy with the poem (2014.10.11). Eunji Kim also adds that students can reflect themselves. She writes, “[By] reading this poem, they can reflect what they had done to their parents” (Kim, 2014.10.14). All their points considered, using “To a Daughter Leaving Home” can be an effective way of teaching high school students because it will arouse students’ sympathy, which is associated with internal motivation.
The other common reason why the bloggers think the poem is appropriate for high school students is that the vocabulary of the poem is neither too hard nor too easy. Both Choi and Kim mentions that the poem is proper for high school students because there are some simple words and repeated structures with useful expressions. Choi also says, “According to the input hypothesis, it is good to teach +1 difficult level than student’s level” (2014. 10.12). She puts emphasis on the importance of the appropriate level for learners by mentioning the input hypothesis. Cho writes, “The level of vocabulary is not that difficult and there are many literary devices that students have to learn such as symbolism and metaphor” (Cho, 2014.10.11). Given this, by reading and learning the poem students will be able to learn the vocabulary at an appropriate level.    
In short, all these three bloggers believe that “To a Daughter Leaving Home” will be the best literature for high school students for two reasons. First, students can relate the poem to their real life. Second, the poem has an appropriate level of vocabulary.




References

Cho, Hyeonkyeom (2014.10.11) “Poem recommendation - To a daughter leaving home” [Web Log Post] Retrieved from http://lovelycho.blogspot.kr/


Choi, Hyewon (2014.10.12) “EEE Week5 Assignment” [Web Log Post] Retrieved from http://eeehyewon.blogspot.kr/


Kim, Eunji (2014.10.14) “To a Daughter Leaving Home : good to teach to high school students.” [Web Log Post] Retrieved from http://kimd2828.blogspot.kr/


   

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