Poetry

October 31, 2017

Standard: 

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.3

Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.10

By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 11-CCR text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

EQ: Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in Harlem Renaissance poetry, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.

Independently read and comprehend poems with scaffolding as needed.

Starter: 

Words

We will watch through the video once.

Then the second time write down all of the words.

Analyze the meaning of the video.

Word: Culture 

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regardedcollectively.

Your Definition: 

Activity: Describe your culture in one sentence.

Activity: 

1.  Harlem Renaissance Poetry 

With a partner, complete a TPCASTT for From the Dark Tower by Countee Cullen.

TPCASTT Template 

Make a copy of the template and move it to your assignments folder. 

Eventually, we will review the information as a class. 

From The Dark Tower

We shall not always plant while others reap

The golden increment of bursting fruit,

Not always countenance, abject and mute,

That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap;

Not everlastingly while others sleep

Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,

Not always bend to some more subtle brute;

We were not made to eternally weep. 

The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,

White stars is no less lovely being dark,

And there are buds that cannot bloom at all

In light, but crumple, piteous, and fall;

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds,

And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

2.  StudySync 

You have the choice to independently read and analyze Theme for English B by Langston Hughes or Any Human to Another by Countee Culleen.

For the poem you select, you must complete a TPCASTT.

Make a second copy of the TPCASTT template or complete it on a separate sheet of paper.

After you complete your TPCASTT answer the FOCUS questions for the corresponding poem. 

Eventually, you meet with the people who worked on the same poem to share ideas. 

Closure

Which component of TPCASTT is your strength?

Weakness?

Explain.