ESSENTIAL OR GUIDING QUESTION

Does growing older provide a person with more benefits than it does drawbacks or vice versa?

CLOSE READING EXERCISE

Examine for 7 seconds – no discussion

What did you see?

What claim can you make?

What supports your claim?

What inference can you make?

What supports your inference?

21 seconds with discussion

The Gross Clinic, 1825, by Thomas Eakins

What claim can you make from this picture?

What inference can you make?

What supports your claim

What supports your inference?

Who is the man?-Support

What are the themes of the painting?

What claim can you make?

What supports your claim?

What inference can you make?

What supports your inference?

What claim can you make?

What supports your claim?

What inference can you make?

What supports your inference?

The Agnew Clinic – 1889 by Thomas Eakins

Who is the man?

Repeat – claims, inferences and support

What are the themes of the painting?

The Agnew Clinic – 1889 by Thomas Eakins

SONNET 73

That time of year thou may'st in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away,Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by. This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long.- Shakespeare

Steps to analyse

HEAD – themes, what is the author trying to say

EYES – structure, shape of the poem, vocabulary (types of words),sentences, punctuation, patterns

HANDS – literary devices used to effect the themes/tone/mood

LEGS – the pace, fast or slow, breaks or turns/turning points

HEART – what is the overall tone, what are the key emotions, where is thepassion

DNA – historical or author background

FEET – connections, where does this poem take your thoughts, ideas,can you connect the piece with other literature, art, your life experience,history

Analyze Sonnet 73 using these roles

Two Kinds by Amy Tan

My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open a restaurant. You could work for the government and getgood retirement. You could buy a house with almost no money down. You could become rich. You could become instantly famous. "Of course, you can be a prodigy, too," my mother told me when I was nine. "You can be best anything. What does Auntie Lindo know? Her daughter, she is only best tricky.” America was where all my mother's hopes lay. She had come to San Francisco in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girls. But she never looked back with regret. Things could get better in so many ways.

HOW DOES THIS PASSAGE RELATE TO THE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONAND THE THEMES OF THE OTHER PIECES EXAMINED?