Why we have to choose “To a Daughter Leaving Home” for teaching.
There are many students that select “To a Daughter Leaving Home” for teaching in our class. Why did that many students choose the poem? Is there something good reasons? I could find that reason as I saw three essays that was written by students who recommend “To a Daughter Leaving Home”.
In the three students essay, they had specific several reasons. The first reason that we can see is the message means mother’s love toward daughter. Ji Hyun Shin says high school students feel and remind about mother’ love to be gotten from mother (Shin, 2015.09.23) “As they read the poem, high school students can think about their mother’s love and be thankful for it”. Also, she explains “they can look back on their past of themselves when they were little, learning how to ride a bike.” (Shin, 2015.09.23). Furthermore, Young Seo Yoon says like that “It is more effective for students to understand mother’s love through this poem than explain much time through reading other person’s story.” (Yoon, 2015.09.29). In case of Min Kyung Kim’s essay, she tells how mother’s love conveys with us as her experience. “ I guess my mom also have been always worried about me just like the writer does in this poem. As a daughter, I could feel mom’s heart to worry and think of daughter, and it made me touched.” (Kim, 2015.09.29). We can agree with choosing this poem as mother’s love toward daughter.
In other way, they also agree that “To a Daughter Leaving Home” consists of easy language and has not so hard metaphors. Yoon says “ the poem consists of easy language such as “When I taught you at eight to ride a bicycle” or “screaming with laughter”. This makes the reader, especially students can read it easily.” and “the poem contains various metaphors in the easy words.” (Yoon, 2015.09.29) on her blog. It means to know behind poem’s meaning easily because it was written easy language and metaphors. It is similar with Kim. She points out “ Several words may be confusing and some expressions may be ambiguous because some metaphors are used in this poem, though it is not that hard to understand and rather the use of metaphors arouse students’ interests.” (Kim, 2015.09.29). Shin also writes the agreement “First of all, the vocabulary is not overwhelming for high school students. It does not have difficult words, so students can read the poem without having too much stress.” and explains by giving examples “using several metaphorical phrases, it helps students learn concepts about metaphor and actually see lines that are using it. For example, the phrase ‘while you grew smaller, more breakable with distance’ implies the independence of the daughter, ready to be on her own. The last phrase saying ‘the hair flapping behind you like a handkerchief waving goodbye’ also shows mother’s proudness of her daughter.” (Shin, 2015.09.23). These all words show us enough to consent that it has easy language and good metaphors for high school students.
In summary, there are several reasons that they chose this poem. It is the message that is mother’s love toward daughter and easy language and good metaphors. In that reasons, They thought this poem good for high school students and I think many students in our class thought same.
Reference:
Shin, Ji Hyun (2015.09.23) “Week 5 Homework” [web log post]
Yoon, Young Sae (2015.09.29) “untitled” [web log post]
Kim, Min Kyung (2015.09.29) “To a daughter leaving home” [web log post]
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Great! you choose the same bloger that I choose. ^0^
답글삭제Good writing, but I think you really need to change Youngseo's name in the reference list! :)
답글삭제Didn't you choose "fire and ice" for your teaching literacy?
답글삭제Did I choose the same poem?
삭제I knew i didn't have to choose the same poem for paraphrasing eassay.
Great point! However, I expected to see the paraphrasing for "fire and ice"
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