It's always time to leave. But despite the ingenuous tone of the poem, irony does appear in the assertions of collectivity. Within contexts at once social, historical, and political, contemporary populist and avant-garde poetries may play complementary roles as socially liberatory practices. Schooled in such questions, in the service of increased discursive mobility and diversity, poetry has the potential to play a more meaningful role in the twentieth-first century as cultural criticism by other means. Targeting especially large urban areas and students at risk for academic failure, the project emphasizes the mundane goal of integrating reading and writing with a view toward the development of critical literacy skills and a strong sense of the school as a community of inquiry.
Present practice promotes functional literacy.
The first-grader silently marking a worksheet has no opportunity for metacognition or any need to explain. What is required is a social curriculum that provokes and supports discourse and explication from the earliest grades onward. So far, so good. I hadn't planned what I would do with the poems on the day of their arrival, but I was open to any possibility. At this point I realized I'd broken rules.