Student: Sarah Overall data and student work samples The following graph represents the pre and

d post figurative language assessment results given to students in this study. Each of the five participants being closely studied as well as the overall class average has been included.

Figure 1 Survey ONE

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Survey TWO

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are two e+amples of this participants work before blogging on wiki ,taken from

riter!s "otebook-.

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Week FOUR. 1ase group blogging responses to a famous poet. TASK: base groups were presented with one famous poem a day and were asked to critically read2 analy3e and respond to the blogging 4uestion. *ere are a few e+amples of this participants work before blogging ,taken from riter!s "otebook-. &lo''in' e%amples !y parti$ipant on $lassroom wiki Figure 5

(!ase team response )rom Ro!ert Frost poem* The Road Not Taken+

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,student response to literature reading: Gracies Canoe Trip question five: What is the personification in line 1? Change the sentence so that the sun is still personified but with a new human quality !