Structure

Structure and organisation affect functionality.

Students 14-15 years of age

Gender

Girls

Wants to please the teacher, will ask more questions directly to instructor, non-confrontational approaches

Boys

Working one-on-one sitting down next to them, collaborative teamwork in a time-constrained setting, hierarchical statuses in friend groups, moderate stress strengthens neurons

Gender neutral trends

Piaget

Formal operational stage – develop abstract thoughts and apply logical thinking and reasoning in their lives

Vygotsky

Use scaffolding techniques to strengthen student's areas of uncertainty and internalisation.

Attention Span

15-16 minutes without any breaks in the current activity

Other units of discipline

Music: song arrangements & medleys

Math: sequential expressions/order of operations for equations

Health: workout routines

Physical science: components of atomic molecules

Poetic structures in English and Language Arts

Shakespearean sonnet lines and verse

Rhyme patterns and placement in Shakespearean sonnets

Possible Misconceptions

Undergeneralisation misconception: All poems that follow this rhyming scheme were only written by Shakespeare.

Overgeneralisation misconception: Poems with alternating rhyme schemes are sonnets.

Defining features:
-Rhyme scheme follows this pattern:
abab cdcd efef gg
-The last word at the end of each quatrain line alternate in rhyming with the last two lines rhyming together

Positive instances

Prototype:
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

Quatrain 1
Line 1: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s "day" [A]
Line 2: Thou art more lovely and more "temperate" [B]
Line 3: Rough winds do shake the darling "buds of May" [A]
Line 4: And summer's lease hath all too "short a date" [B]

Negative instances

Quatrain 1
Line 1: “sad” [A]
Line 2: “mad” [A]
Line 3: “lie” [B]
Line 4: “cry” [B]

Correlational features that might lead to misconceptions

Slant rhymes that might be misinterpreted as true rhymes

Other poems that alternate rhyming words but are not Shakespearean sonnet style

Placement of rhyme at the end of each line determines type of poetic structure