These two texts were chosen by the writer for a variety

of reasons, the first was to engage students to the new

topic of love, were collaborative discussion of ideas
and themes would take place. The second text was
selected, one to support and present a challenge for
readers by having varied levels of the book, supported
by audios and videos which were made available. The
writer wanted the students to discover complexity of
love, how one group may perceive it as olden style,
another culture could see it as modern by reading this
text and discussing this notion would be discovered.
And from this they move in to poems in the class
textbook, hopefully with a analytical lens to see what
these mean to them as readers and how they can
demystify them and maybe even relate to them.
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