December 4, 2019

Objective:  I can utilize TPCASTT as a toolkit to help me analyze poems that I cannot make meaning of on my own (RL11-12.3/5/6).  
Agenda:

• Entry Task:  Get out annotated Multiple Choice and answer the next question.  Be prepared to be called on and give your reasoning for your answer
  
  • See TPCASTT and understand that it is a toolkit and should be used at reader's discretion to help make meaning where it is lacking.  For each of the following poems, students need to identify CAST--Connotation, Attitude, Shift, and Theme. Each poem should be in the notebook and labeled.
    
  • Read "Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon, #reaction, CAST
    
    • Students share out reactions and CAST--attempt to write a theme statement
      
  • Read "Century Quilt" by Marilyn Nelson Waniek​, #reaction, CAST 
    
    • Students share out reactions and CAST--attempt to write a theme statement
      
• Exit Task:  Of the two poems read today, which one do you relate to more?  How? Why? How did TPCASTT help you make more meaning?
  

If you are doing the writing poetry deepening assignment (or for 10 bonus points), use the template to write your own version of the poem AFTER you have used TPCASTT on both poems.