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Appendix C

American schools have traditionally favored those students who excel in the linguistic and analytical arenas because these skills are highly valued in our culture. Unfortunately, this traditional approach leaves certain students behind to stumble blindly through an educational system that ignores their unique abilities. This action research study seeks to show that instructional activities that incorporate the multiple intelligences can improve students' attitudes toward learning and students' academic achievement in English class.

Analytical Writing Sample

Composition Assignment

Read the following poem and write a composition in which you (1) explain the generalization or comment the poem makes about love, marriage, or relationships and (2) explain, through effective use of evidence from the poem, the reasons for your interpretations of the poem’s meaning.

In the Metro
(subway)
I know: I’ll never meet again
the girl I met the other day,
the girl with shining legs in the metro.
I know: she goes her way
And I go mine…and yet
I’m sad, though I don’t know why.
The escalator carried her away
Just as a river – a flower to the sea,
while I, crucified to family duties,
stood, transfixed,

on the platform

with a shopping bag dangling from my hand…

Mikhail Kvlividze

“In the Metro” by Mikhail Kvlividze from Soviet Life (September 1968). Published by Novosti Press Agency.

Adapted from Kahn, Walters, & Johannessen (1984).

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