When we were doing poems or writing a letter in Scots. We had to send a letter about a bad experience. I like writing in Scots. (Interview between researcher and pupil)Pupils worked with poems and other forms of literary Scots, and completed functional writing tasks, as part of a strategy...
indeed it was one of two set poems, along with an extract from the epic supernatural thriller Tam o' Shant-er, for the annual Burns recitation competition at our primary school.When I was nine or so I thought To A Mouse was, quite simply, a poem about a mouse: a kind of nice poem...