Emily Wiley

Student Teaching
Analysis of Student Learning
I.

Description
a. I am teaching Read 180/English 9 at Christiansburg High School. Both of
these classes are 90 minutes long. Each class contains about 30 students,
over half or more of which have an IEP or 504 plan. The students have
difficulty staying focused and staying on task. Their grades are not
motivating factors for them. I issued this pre and post test to them before
we started a unit on poetry.
b. The poetry unit is one of the last units that I taught during my student
teaching at Christiansburg High School. The purpose of this unit is to
introduce students to different types of writing and literature. I will help
the students relate poetry to their own lives by comparing it with rap
music.
c. The format for the pre-test consisted of matching, multiple-choice, and
true/false questions. The questions that were used on the post-test were
identical to the pre-test. However, I did have to remove some of the poetic
terms from the post-test because we were not able to cover them during
the unit.
d. Pre-Test

Name_____________________________________ Date_____________________________
Block____________________
Poetry Pre-Test
Matching Use each letter twice (1 point each)
A. Limericks B. Haikus

C. Sonnets

D. Free Verse

_______1. Lines include iambic pentameter

E. Pantoums

_______2. The 2 and 4 lines in one stanza become the 1 and 3 lines in the
next stanza
nd

th

st

rd

_______3. Unrhymed poetry

_______4. Has 14 lines per stanza
_______5. Three lines per poem with the syllables per line 5, 7 ,5
_______6. Normally a humorous poem
_______7. Stanzas are quatrains
_______8. No patterns or rhyme scheme
_______9. Various lengths; no structure
_______10. Rhyme scheme AABBA
Multiple Choice (1 point each)
_______11. The curious cat crept towards the mouse hole is an example of?
a. Simile
c. Alliteration
b. Metaphor
d. Personification
_______12. Snap, crackle, pop are examples of?
a. Personification
c. Hyperbole
b. Onomatopoeia
d. Idiom
_______13. She was certain that life was a fashion show is an example of?
a. Hyperbole
c. Allusion
b. Metaphor
d. Simile
_______14. Before the movie began, I told the student to hit the lights. Hit
the lights is an example of?
a. Idiom
c. Alliteration
b. Onomatopoeia
d. Metaphor
_______15. He is as strong as an ox is an example of?
a. Metaphor
c. Simile
b. Allusion
d. Idiom
_______16. This is the giving of human qualities to non-human things.
a. Metaphor
c. Symbolism
b. Personification
d. Idiom
_______17. I can smell pizza from a mile away is an example of?
a. Allusion
c. Hyperbole
b. Idiom
d. Metaphor

_______18. The color white represents purity. The color white is an example
of?
a. Allusion
c. Hyperbole
b. Onomatopoeia
d. Symbolism
_______19. Oh, stop being such a Romeo. This is an example of?
a. Hyperbole
c. Metaphor
b. Allusion
d. Simile
_______20. Good grief is an example of?
a. Hyperbole
c. Oxymoron
b. Onomatopoeia
d. Metaphor
_______21. The term given to the whole way in which the poet conveys the
images he is creating to his or her reader.
a. Imagery
c. Meter
b. Metaphor
d. Voice
_______22. A literary device that contributes to the creation of rhythmic
verses.
a. Blank Verse
c. Oxymoron
b. Assonance
d. Hyperbole
_______23. A recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines of
a set length.
a. Meter
c. Idiom
b. Simile
d. Allusion
_______24. Author's style, the quality that makes his or her writing unique is
an example of?
a. Allusion
c. Hyperbole
b. Metaphor
d. Voice
True or False (1 point each)
_______25. Consonance is the repetition of vowels in poetry.
_______26. Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or
song.
_______27. Blank Verse is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
_______28. Mood is the setting of the poem.
_______29. Iambic Pentameter has five syllables in a line of poetry.
_______30. Figurative Language is language that uses or contains figures of
speech.

e. Post-Test

Name_____________________________________ Date_____________________________
Block____________________
Poetry Post-Test
Matching Use each letter twice (1 point each)
A. Limericks B. Haikus

C. Sonnets

D. Free Verse

_______1. Lines include iambic pentameter

_______2. Unrhymed poetry
_______3. Has 14 lines per stanza
_______4. Three lines per poem with the syllables per line 5, 7 ,5
_______5. Normally a humorous poem
_______6. Stanzas are quatrains
_______7. No patterns or rhyme scheme
_______8. Various lengths; no structure
_______9. Rhyme scheme AABBA
Multiple Choice (1 point each)
_______11. The curious cat crept towards the mouse hole is an example of?
a. Simile
c. Alliteration
b. Metaphor
d. Personification
_______12. Snap, crackle, pop are examples of?
a. Personification
c. Hyperbole
b. Onomatopoeia
d. Idiom
_______13. She was certain that life was a fashion show is an example of?
a. Hyperbole
c. Allusion
b. Metaphor
d. Simile
_______14. Before the movie began, I told the student to hit the lights. Hit
the lights is an example of?
a. Idiom
c. Alliteration
b. Onomatopoeia
d. Metaphor
_______15. He is as strong as an ox is an example of?
a. Metaphor
c. Simile
b. Allusion
d. Idiom
_______16. This is the giving of human qualities to non-human things.

a. Metaphor
b. Personification

c.

Symbolism
d. Idiom

_______17. I can smell pizza from a mile away is an example of?

a. Allusion
c. Hyperbole
b. Idiom
d. Metaphor
_______18. The color white represents purity. The color white is an example
of?
a. Allusion
c. Hyperbole
b. Onomatopoeia
d. Symbolism
_______19. Oh, stop being such a Romeo. This is an example of?
a. Hyperbole
c. Metaphor
b. Allusion
d. Simile
_______20. Good grief is an example of?
a. Hyperbole
c. Oxymoron
b. Onomatopoeia
d. Metaphor
_______21. The term given to the whole way in which the poet conveys the
images he is creating to his or her reader.
a. Imagery
c. Meter
b. Metaphor
d. Voice
_______22. A literary device that contributes to the creation of rhythmic
verses.
a. Blank Verse
c. Oxymoron
b. Assonance
d. Hyperbole
_______23. A recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines of
a set length.
a. Meter
c. Idiom
b. Simile
d. Allusion
_______24. Author's style, the quality that makes his or her writing unique is
an example of?
a. Allusion
c. Hyperbole
b. Metaphor
d. Voice
True or False (1 point each)
_______25. Consonance is the repetition of vowels in poetry.
_______26. Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or
song.
_______27. Blank Verse is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
_______28. Mood is the setting of the poem.

_______29. Iambic Pentameter has five syllables in a line of poetry.

_______30. Figurative Language is language that uses or contains figures of
speech.

f.
Poetry Unit: Pre/Post Test Data
60
55
50

55

50

50

48

45
40

40

40

36

Pre-Test

Post-Test

24

12

10

10
5

Question
25

Question
26

Question
27

Question
28

Question
29

Question
30

Iwasverysurprisedandpleasedwiththeresultsoftheposttest.AtthetimewhenIwasteachingthe
information,itseemedlikethestudentswerenotgraspingtheinformation.WhenInoticedthis,Iimplanted
differentiatedlearninginstructiontoreinforcethethingsthatweweregoingoverinclass.Ifocusedon
question2530becausethestudentsinEnglish9seemtohavethehardesttimewiththosetypesof
questions.Question25sawa40pointincrease,question26sawa5pointincrease,question27sawa40
pointincrease(!!!!),question28sawa15pointincrease,question29sawa30pointincrease,andquestion
30sawa10pointincrease.
g.Reflection
Theseresultsletmeknowthatthedifferentiatedlearningthatweutilizedintheclassroomwasworking.
Also,theresultsallowedmetoseewhatIneededtoreviewmoreaftergradingthepretest.
FromthisexerciseIhavelearnedthatstudentsbenefitfromdifferentiatedlearningandfromtheMakes
SenseStrategiesgraphicorganizersthatIusedonadailybasis.
Iwashopingforagain,butIdidnotexpectasmuchofagainasthedataprovidedmewith.Iwas
pleasantlysurprisedwithhowwellthestudentsdid.

IfitweremyownclassroomIwouldextendthetimeoftheunitbyoneweek.Therewereafewthings
thatwewerenotabletocoverinclassbecauseoftimerestraints.