Pre-Class
Identify the tone for the following situations:
1. a funeral
2. graduation day
3. your best friend’s birthday party
4. a fight with your parent
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Block 1: Look up words that we don’t know on
http://www.merriam-webster.com/. After looking
up our unknown words, we’ll place the words in
the appropriate boxes on the left side of page 8.
All Blocks: Finish Page 9
Find the 8 words that don’t fit in the categories on
page 8.
Create a category for these words.
HOMEWORK
COMPLETE THE BOTTOM PART OF PAGE 9:
ANALYZE THE PASSAGE AND CHOOSE ONE OF
THE TONE WORDS FROM PAGE 8 THAT YOU
THINK BEST DESCRIBES THE TONE. HIGHLIGHT
(OR UNDERLINE) THE PHRASES OR WORDS THAT
SUGGEST THE TONE.
I WILL BE GRADING THIS! (MAKE SURE YOU DO
THIS FOR HOMEWORK AND THAT YOU DO IT
WELL.)
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Read the title of the
poem and predict what
the poem is about.
Activity 1.4
Read aloud the
poem “A Man.”
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How might this man be
considered to be a hero?
What is the challenge of his life
now after the war?
Activity 1.4
A stanza is a group of lines, usually
similar in length and pattern, that
form a unit within a poem.
Why do you think the author chose to
divide the poem into two stanzas?
Activity 1.4
Underline the last two lines of the
poem.
Are these two lines meant to be
taken literally (denotation) or
figuratively (connotation)?
Activity 1.4
Class TPCASTT
Activity 1.4
Before reading “Moco Limping”
think about the title of the poem.
What do you think the poem is going
to be about? Record your answer
under the first T on your TPCASTT
handout.
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As we read “Moco Limping” highlight or circle the
following words in the text: hobbles, savage grace, gait,
leader, brutal hunter, rickety little canine, club foot,
stumbler, abnormal, my vain heart weeps, feeble,
imperfection is forgotten
Think about the connotations of these words. What ideas
and feelings are associated with these words and
phrases, and what attitude or tone do they create?
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Apply the TPCASTT strategy to
“Moco Limping.” Fill in the
TPCASTT handout.