Where Do All the Teachers Go?

The child poet wonders:

• why the teachers do not have dress code

• if teachers live in ordinary houses

• If he could be a teacher

• if the teachers ever sleep

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

For the poet, teachers are

• weak

• strong

• perfect

• sleepy

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

For him, no teacher can ever

• be a role-model

• make mistakes in spellings

• be hardworking

• hit children

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The speaker finds it hard to believe that his teachers are

• great men

• ordinary people

• learned

• educated

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

The speaker thinks that the teachers are always

• in pyjamas

• dressed up formally

• in party-wears

• shabbily dressed

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The name of the poet is

• L.M. Haul

• Peter Dixon

• Harry Behn

• William Shakespeare

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

The poem is about what a child wants to know about

• his home

• his friends

• his home

• his teachers

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

The speaker feels teachers have no time for

• studies

• teaching

• entertainment

• learning

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

According to the speaker picking nose’ is

• good

• bad

• serious

• funny

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The students are much impressed by their

• parents

• soldiers

• themselves

• teachers

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2