Your 5-point daily participation grade is based on CLA’s core-values:

CLA Students are S.M.A.R.T.

SMART (Participation) Grade (5 min)

What do you deserve today?*One point for each core-value (5 points possible each day). I reserve the right to change these

grades.

S = Self-Controlled

M = Motivated

A = Accountable

R = Respectful

T = Timely

Each day YOU will decide the grade you deserve.*

Do Now (5 min)

What does TPCASTT stand for?

(Hint: Look at p. 233)

Poetry Analysis of Combing

Activity 3.15

1. Do Now (5 min)2. Objectives (1 min)3. TPCASTT Focus on Theme (3 min)4. Together-Read Young (5 min)5. Group-TPCASTT Sheet for Young (15 min)6. Listen to Knock Knock (5 min)7. Practice Combing (5 min)8. Perform Combing (10 min)9. Closing (1 min)10.Exit Slip (5 min)11.Participation Grades (3 min)

Agenda

Objectives (2 min)

Language (How you will master the knowledge)By:

1. Writing notes in a TPCASTT template2. Listening to an oral interpretation of a poem and

practicing speaking the words of Combing

Content (The knowledge you’ll master today)SWBAT:

1. Analyze Combing2. Orally present Combing

TPCASTT Sheet for Young (25 min)Objective: SWBAT: Analyze a poem for connotation and theme by writing notes

in a TPCASTT worksheet

Focus on theme!

Focus on Theme (5 min)Objective: SWBAT: Analyze a poem for connotation and theme by writing notes

in a TPCASTT worksheet

· 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

· 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

Together-Read Combing (5 min)

Objective: SWBAT: Analyze a poem for connotation and theme by writing notes in a TPCASTT worksheet

p. 235

TPCASTT Sheet for Combing (15 min)Objective: SWBAT: Analyze a poem for connotation and theme by writing notes

in a TPCASTT worksheet

Focus on theme!

p. 232

Listen to Knock Knock (5 min)Objective: SWBAT: Orally present Combing by listening to an oral interpretation

of a poem and practicing speaking the words of Combing

While You’re Watching:

What makes Daniel Beaty’s

performance so entertaining?

Listen to Knock Knock (5 min)Objective: SWBAT: Orally present Combing by listening to an oral interpretation

of a poem and practicing speaking the words of Combing

Daniel Beaty

Listen to Knock Knock (5 min)Objective: SWBAT: Orally present Combing by listening to an oral interpretation

of a poem and practicing speaking the words of Combing

What makes Daniel Beaty’s

performance so entertaining?

Practice Combing (5 min)Objective: SWBAT: Orally present Combing by listening to an oral interpretation

of a poem and practicing speaking the words of Combing

Please practice

reading the poem

Combing

Don’t forget to emulate

Daniel Beaty

Perform Combing (10 min)Objective: SWBAT: Orally present Combing by listening to an oral interpretation

of a poem and practicing speaking the words of Combing

Please volunteer to

read Combing

Closing (1 min) Did you master the following objectives?

Language (How you will master the knowledge)By:

1. Writing notes in a TPCASTT template

Content (The knowledge you’ll master today)SWBAT:

1. Analyze Young

Exit Slip (5 min)

What is one thing that made Daniel Beaty’s oral interpretation of

Knock Knock so entertaining?

Your 5-point daily participation grade is based on CLA’s core-values:

CLA Students are S.M.A.R.T.

SMART (Participation) Grade (3 min)

What do you deserve today?*One point for each core-value (5 points possible each day). I reserve the right to change these

grades.

S = Self-Controlled

M = Motivated

A = Accountable

R = Respectful

T = Timely

Each day YOU will decide the grade you deserve.*