SMART (Participation) Grade (5 min)
Each day YOU will decide the grade you deserve.*
Your 5-point daily participation grade is based on CLA’s core-values:
CLA Students are S.M.A.R.T.
S = Self-Controlled
M = Motivated
A = Accountable
R = Respectful
T = Timely
What do you deserve today?
*One point for each core-value (5 points possible each day). I reserve the right to change these
grades.
Do Now (5 min)
If you were describing a
writers style, what types of
things would talk about?
Style Analysis
Activity 3.17
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Agenda
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Do Now (5 min)
Objectives (1 min)
Read and interpret Nikki Giovanni Quote (10 min)
Onomatopoeia (5 min)
Together-Read The Beep Beep Poem (5 min)
TPCASTT Sheet for The Beep Beep Poem (25 min)
Closing (1 min)
Exit Slip (5 min)
Participation Grades (3 min)
Objectives (2 min)
Content (The knowledge you’ll master
today)
SWBAT:
1. Define onomatopoeia
2. Analyze The Beep Beep Poem
Language (How you will master the
knowledge)
By:
1. Writing a definition and examples
2. Writing notes in a TPCASTT template
Review TPCASTT
Objective: SWBAT: Analyze a poem for connotation and theme by writing notes
in a TPCASTT worksheet
Title
Paraphrase
Make
a prediction. What do
Connotation
Restate
the main ideas of
Attitude
you
think
the title means
What
words/phrases
Shift
the
poem
in speaker’s
your own
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revisited
Describe
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before
read
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suggest
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literal
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wheretheir
thepoem.
poem
words.
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Re-examine
do you
think
the
title.
is theWhat
attitude.
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specific
meaning.
idea/feeling
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shift,
either in a
underlying
do you
think
message
it means
about
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word
causes
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subject,
speaker,
or mind.
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context
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the
poem?
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words)
describe
your
ideas.
Focus on
connotation!
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-“Dear Sirs Of Course I’ll come”
-“I’ve packed my galoshes”
-“If it helps any, I will tell you, I’ve always felt
funny using chopsticks”
Focus on Theme
Objective: SWBAT: Analyze a poem for connotation and theme by writing notes
in a TPCASTT worksheet
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Beauty of simplicity
Capitalism – effect on the individual
Change of power - necessity
Change versus tradition
Chaos and order
Character – destruction, building up
Circle of life
Coming of age
Communication – verbal and nonverbal
Companionship as salvation
Convention and rebellion
Dangers of ignorance
Darkness and light
Death – inevitable or tragedy
Desire to escape
Destruction of beauty
Disillusionment and dreams
Displacement
Empowerment
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Emptiness of attaining false dream
Everlasting love
Evils of racism
Facing darkness
Facing reality
Fading beauty
Faith versus doubt
Family – blessing or curse
Fate and free will
Fear of failure
Female roles
Fulfillment
Good versus bad
Greed as downfall
Growing up – pain or pleasure
Hazards of passing judgment
Heartbreak of betrayal
Heroism – real and perceived
Hierarchy in nature
Identity crisis
Read and interpret Nikki Giovanni Quote (10 min)
Objective: SWBAT: Analyze a poem by writing notes in a TPCASTT worksheet
What does this quote mean?
Onomatopoeia (5 min)
Objective: SWBAT: Define onomatopoeia by writing a definition and examples
Onomatopoeia:
Words whose sounds
suggest their meaning
Examples:
bloop
splash
spray
sprinkle
squirt
drip
drizzle
water plops into pond
splish-splash downhill
warbling magpies in tree
trilling, melodic thrill
whoosh, passing breeze
flags flutter and flap
frog croaks, bird whistles
babbling bubbles from tap
Together-Read The Beep Beep Poem (5 min)21
Objective: SWBAT: Analyze a poem by writing notes in a TPCASTT worksheet
p. 241
TPCASTT Sheet for The Beep Beep Poem (25 min)
Objective: SWBAT: Analyze a poem by writing notes in a TPCASTT worksheet
p. 241
Block 2
Here are the partners:
Group 1
Antonio, Steven, Ellie, Amber
Group 2
Monika, Jorge, Valentine, Christian
Group 3
Uriel, Brittany, Brenda
Group 4
Thomas, Federico, Aleaha
Group 5
Isela, Nick, Angelina, Joseph
Block 3
Here are the partners:
Group 1
Savannah, Jazzy, Glendi, Darrell
Group 2
Greg, Michelle, Jakeela, Ahsten
Group 3
Illycia, Samuel, Adrianne, Quevon
Group 4
Bianca, Jalen, Alexander
Group 5
Jose, Julian, Troy, Elizabeth
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Closing (1 min)
Did you master the following objectives?
Content (The knowledge you’ll master
today)
SWBAT:
1. Define onomatopoeia
2. Analyze The Beep Beep Poem
Language (How you will master the
knowledge)
By:
1. Writing a definition and examples
2. Writing notes in a TPCASTT template
Exit Slip (5 min)
What is
Onomatopoeia?
What is one example
of onomatopoeia?
SMART (Participation) Grade (3 min)
Each day YOU will decide the grade you deserve.*
Your 5-point daily participation grade is based on CLA’s core-values:
CLA Students are S.M.A.R.T.
S = Self-Controlled
M = Motivated
A = Accountable
R = Respectful
T = Timely
What do you deserve today?
*One point for each core-value (5 points possible each day). I reserve the right to change these
grades.