TPCAST Foldable Lesson

TPCAST Foldable Lesson

Reading Poetry

• Reading poetry is not that different than reading a short story, novel, or article.

• In order to make reading poetry less scary we use the TPCAST strategy.

Poll

How do you feel about reading poetry?

Title

• Think about the title and try to predict what the poem may be about.

  
  

• Activating that prior knowledge you already have makes reading a poem a lot easier.

Multiple Select

The title of the poem is:

The Road Not Taken

What is a logical prediction about this title? Select all that apply.

• It is about a road that might not be very popular with everyone.

• It might be about regrets someone has in their life.

• It might be about a car.

• It might be about making choices.

Paraphrase

Determine what is going on in the poem.  What is the plot?  What is the literal meaning of the poem?  Focus on each thing that happens, as it happens, in the poem.

Multiple Choice

What is an accurate way to describe paraphrasing?

• Picking out what you think is important and writing it down.

• Breaking down the text little by little to understand what is actually happening.

• Analyzing the text for the deeper meaning

Connotation

Are there poetic devices which contribute to the meaning or the effect of the poem?  Consider imagery, figures of speech (simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism) diction, point of view, and sound devices (alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, and rhyme).

Multiple Select

After paraphrasing the text for its literal meaning you begin to look for ____________ (select all that apply).

• Figurative language

• Sound devices

• Diction

• POV

• Imagery

Poll

This isn't part of the grade.

I understand all of the words from the previous slide (figurative language, diction, POV, sound devices, imagery, etc.)

Attitude

Examine diction, images, and details which might suggest the speaker’s attitude.  What is the tone of the poem?  (See “TONE WORDS” HANDOUT.)

Shifts

• Rarely does the poet’s experience begin and end in the same place. This “shift” is a gradual realization of this new understanding. In order to determine where this occurs, watch for the following: 

  ●  keywords (but, yet, however, although)

  ●  punctuation (dashes, periods, colons)

  ●  stanza divisions

  ●  changes in line or stanza length or both

  ●  irony

  ●  changes in sound that may indicate changes in meaning

  ●  changes in diction

Multiple Choice

True/False

Shifts are ALWAYS there!

• True

• False

Theme

Identify the theme by attempting to recognize the human experience, motivation, or condition suggested by the poem. 

1. summarize the “plot” of the poem;

2. list the subject or subjects of the poem (move from literal subjects to abstract concepts such as death, war, discovery; and… finally,

3. determine what the poet is saying about each subject and write a complete sentence. 

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a theme statement?

• A summary of the poem.

• What the poem is about.

• The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

  is about fate, and reveals that a person’s choices

  can lead to consequences that are completely

  beyond his control.

• Fate

TPCAST

• Title

• Paraphrase

• Connotation

• Attitude

• Shift

• Theme

Open Ended

What is something you learned today?

Open Ended

What is something you still have a question about?