ELA Core

August 24, 2011

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.

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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?

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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?

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Underline the last two lines of the poem.

Are these two lines meant to be taken literally (denotation) or figuratively (connotation)?

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Class TPCASTT

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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.