I felt that all of the approaches we took to construct meaning in this poem were effective for me and I see how they could be for others as well. Verbally expressing our thoughts helps us realize what we are thinking and writing them down helps remember the thoughts that were thunk at the time of the reading. Also, having them written down makes it easier to see those thoughts when looking for connections between the text and personal experiences. The teacher modeling stanza helped me know what kind of connections and annotations you expected us to draw. When we shifted to guided practice through scaffolding, having a partner read and think out loud to me to jot down his thoughts, I benefited by being shown the poem from a different perspective from someone drawing off other experiences. And then finally, for the last stanza, after analyzing the poem from several different methods, I was able to better approach the conclusive stanza. I feel each one of these approaches can be used to help a struggling reader to make sense of the poem. It helps to be shown from a teacher and from peers a variance of POV when interpreting the text.