https://padlet.com/tuwhar3toa/xloicpil8pmf Language features en-us 2018-09-05 09:33:52 UTC 2018-10-18 09:35:26 UTC hello@padlet.com tuwhar3toa https://padlet.com/tuwhar3toa/xloicpil8pmf/wish/277892824
When I was a kid
I used to think that pork chops and karate chops
Were the same thing
I thought they were both pork chops
And because my grandmother thought it was cute
And because they were my favourite
She let me keep doing it

Not really a big deal

One day
Before I realized fat kids are not designed to climb trees
I fell out of a tree
And bruised the right side of my body


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I didn’t want to tell my grandmother about it
Because I was afraid I’d get in trouble
For playing somewhere that I shouldn’t have been

A few days later the gym teacher noticed the bruise
And I got sent to the principal’s office
From there I was sent to another small room
With a really nice lady
Who asked me all kinds of questions
About my life at home]]> 2018-09-05 09:41:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tuwhar3toa/xloicpil8pmf/wish/277893482 tuwhar3toa https://padlet.com/tuwhar3toa/xloicpil8pmf/wish/277893616
I saw no reason to lie
As far as I was concerned
Life was pretty good
I told her, “Whenever I’m sad
My grandmother gives me karate chops”

This led to a full scale investigation
And I was removed from the house for three days
Until they finally decided to ask how I got the bruises

News of this silly little story quickly spread through the school
And I earned my first nickname

Pork Chop

To this day
I hate pork chops]]> 2018-09-05 09:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tuwhar3toa/xloicpil8pmf/wish/277893616 tuwhar3toa https://padlet.com/tuwhar3toa/xloicpil8pmf/wish/277893755 I’m not the only kid
Who grew up this way
Surrounded by people who used to say
That rhyme about sticks and stones
As if broken bones
Hurt more than the names we got called
And we got called them all
So we grew up believing no one
Would ever fall in love with us
That we’d be lonely forever
That we’d never meet someone
To make us feel like the sun
Was something they built for us
In their tool shed
So broken heart strings bled the blues
As we tried to empty ourselves
So we would feel nothing
Don’t tell me that hurts less than a broken bone
That an ingrown life
Is something surgeons can cut away
That there’s no way for it to metastasize]]> 2018-09-05 09:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tuwhar3toa/xloicpil8pmf/wish/277893755 tuwhar3toa https://padlet.com/tuwhar3toa/xloicpil8pmf/wish/277893869 It does

She was eight years old
Our first day of grade three
When she got called ugly
We both got moved to the back of the class
So we would stop get bombarded by spit balls
But the school halls were a battleground
Where we found ourselves outnumbered day after wretched day
We used to stay inside for recess
Because outside was worse
Outside we’d have to rehearse running away
Or learn to stay still like statues giving no clues that we were there
In grade five they taped a sign to her desk
That read beware of dog]]> 2018-09-05 09:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tuwhar3toa/xloicpil8pmf/wish/277893869 tuwhar3toa https://padlet.com/tuwhar3toa/xloicpil8pmf/wish/277894028
You will be split up into groups and given a different passage from the poem.

1. Search for any language features in your passage.
2. Post a comment on your groups passage with the language feature you have found and the example from the text.
3. Write what kind of effect it has on you.

note: your comments will come up as anonymous, so add your name in your comment if you would like everyone to know who has commented.]]> 2018-09-05 09:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tuwhar3toa/xloicpil8pmf/wish/277894028 tuwhar3toa https://padlet.com/tuwhar3toa/xloicpil8pmf/wish/278685087

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