In this brave new hybrid world we found it necessary to combine Poem-in-your-Pocket Day with the poetry unit test. And so the usual assignment to select a poem to share, post it on our LMS discussion, and explain why you picked it, became an assessment, too, just by adding the direction to identify at least 2 poet's tools in the poem.
Despite our yearlong focus on providing evidence from the text to support whatever one is saying, most of our young poets left that out. Not only were they unable or willing to cite a part of the poem to explain why they liked it, they didn't even pull out the poet's tools from the text, preferring instead to just add a couple of terms at the bottom and hope they were right.
Many of them didn't even pretend to be certain. Um, simile? someone literally wrote, hyperbole?
Then there was the writer who chose a poem she had written herself: I think I used simile and a little bit of rhyming.
But my favorite was this one: Now I'm no expert, but I think it has a bit of metaphors.
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