Ali -Week 2

I babysit every day after school and the younger of the two kids is 9 and had severe focus issues. He gets frustrated easily and upset and I told him he needs to be listening more and today he had a difficult homework assignment. He had to find poetic devices in a poem and write them out. Which is hard for a 9 year old. I challenged him to find them on his own and I would check them. He wasn’t responding to that so I challenged him to tell me what each poetic device was. One that was extremely challenging was repetition. At first he really didn’t understand that so I showed him root words and helped give him hints. He tried to look again and still didn’t understand so I told him to look at the poem as a whole and he started figuring it out. At first he said it was something from the beginning, then I told him yes but there’s a bit more to it and he said the word “I’m”. I was ecstatic!!! “I’m” is a word repeated throughout the poem so I encouraged him to tell me what it was about that word and he finally said it’s repeated!!! And I gave him 3 double high fives and we both lit up we were so excited and relieved that he finally got it!! I explained to him the hints I had given him earlier and we figured it out together!!!! Such an amazing moment.