Should the students know all 18 poems? Nephew has said teacher told them they only need to memorise two for each section (so two for love/relationships, two for war/conflict etc). Am I missing something, what is the point of giving them 18 poems? Typical boy, he only knows a few (ones he's done in class), now panicking about ones he doesn't know and realistically is there time to cover the rest? It's almost like teacher is assuming only certain poems will come up, how can they possibly know? Some of them seem so difficult it's taking me all the time to understand them, and I left school over 20 years ago 
. He's one of those that thinks he got plenty of time, I'll do it tomorrow and then all of a sudden you're sitting the exam at the end of the month! (Yr 10 sitting early 
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