1. POETRY!!! Students : YES! THANK YOU MRS.SMITH!!!!
Mrs. Smith: You are welcome children. Now set up your notes Cornell/T-Chart style.

2. Why does man continue to write poetry in today’s world?
Write and answer this question on your notes. Write as much as you can for 10 minutes. Keep this paper until the end of our poetry unit.

3. TPCASTT practice
You will be asked to take notes on how to TPCASTT a poem. This is a method to thoroughly understand a poem.
Then we will work through a poem together.

4. Title: Does it mean anything?
Paraphrase: Rewrite the poem in your own words.
Connotation: Words with emotional meaning.
Attitude: Find examples that illustrate the tone and mood of the poem
Shift: Is there a change in tone or attitude?
Title: Does the title mean anything else?
Theme: What is the overall theme?

5. Title: Does it mean anything?
Metaphor
Title: Does it mean anything?
Don’t read the poem
yet.
Just look at the title.
Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on. Whatever you want to say, all day, until night folds it up and files it away. The bright words and the dark words are gone until dawn and a new day to write on.
Write your answer please.
The word metaphor describes a comparison between 2 things. This poem is probably going to be a comparison.

6. Paraphrase: Rewrite the poem in your own words.
Metaphor
Paraphrase: Rewrite the poem in your own words.
Don’t read the poem
yet.
Just look at the title.
Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on. Whatever you want to say, all day, until night folds it up and files it away. The bright words and the dark words are gone until dawn and a new day to write on.
Now you look at the poem.
Go one idea at a time and just write it in your own words – this is translation to common language, not interpretation of significance.
Wrong way
The beginning of life is like the morning where you can do anything.
Right way
The morning time is like a blank sheet of paper.

7. Connotation: Words with emotional meaning.
Metaphor
Connotation: Words with emotional meaning.
Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on. Whatever you want to say, all day, until night folds it up and files it away. The bright words and the dark words are gone until dawn and a new day to write on.
Make a list of all the emotional words.
Morning
new
Whatever
want
all
day
night
folds up
files
away
bright
dark
gone
dawn

8. Connotation: Words with emotional meaning.
Metaphor
Connotation: Words with emotional meaning.
Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on. Whatever you want to say, all day, until night folds it up and files it away. The bright words and the dark words are gone until dawn and a new day to write on.
Now put a + or – next to each word based on the emotional feeling of the word.
Morning
new
Whatever
want
all
day
night
folds up
files
away
bright
dark
gone
dawn

9. Attitude: Emotional feeling of the poem – tone and attitude.
Metaphor
Attitude: Emotional feeling of the poem – tone and attitude.
Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on. Whatever you want to say, all day, until night folds it up and files it away. The bright words and the dark words are gone until dawn and a new day to write on.
Since most of your connotation words are positive, then it’s fair to say the tone or mood is.
Now try to specifically summarize the tone or mood. Pick a word or words that describes this tone or mood accurately. Be specific.
Wrong: the tone is good
Wrong: the tone is emotional.
Right: the tone is optimistic.

10. Shift: Does it change feeling or emotion?
Metaphor
Shift: Does it change feeling or emotion?
Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on. Whatever you want to say, all day, until night folds it up and files it away. The bright words and the dark words are gone until dawn and a new day to write on.
Most poetry has a shift. This will normally contrast with the rest of the poem and help you to understand the meaning of the poem.
Where is the shift in this poem?
What does it accomplish?
It points out that the mood is not purely optimistic. We are limited in the amount of time we have each day and we can make bad decisions.

11. Title: Does the title mean anything else?
Metaphor
Title: Does the title mean anything else?
Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on. Whatever you want to say, all day, until night folds it up and files it away. The bright words and the dark words are gone until dawn and a new day to write on.
The title seems kind of simple doesn’t it. Almost every poem is a metaphor after all.
Does the title mean anymore after reading the poem?

12. Theme: What is the moral?
Metaphor
Theme: What is the moral?
Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on. Whatever you want to say, all day, until night folds it up and files it away. The bright words and the dark words are gone until dawn and a new day to write on.
A theme is an underlying message. It is not the topic! The theme has nothing to do with paper, dawn, or night.
This is where you interpret the meaning of the poem.