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21st Century Skill= Critical Thinking

ELA Graduation Competency: Graduation Competency 1: Read closely to analyze and evaluate all forms of (i.e.complex literary and informational) texts. Graduation Competency 5: Communicate information, reasoning, and supporting evidence that conveys a clear and distinct perspective. Graduation Competency 6: Employ the components of language (including conventions and word choice) effectively in written or spoken form.

Standards= RL1, RL2, RL4, RL9, RL10, W1, W4, W7, W9, L1, L2, L6

Directions: Read and annotate the sonnets below. Then complete a TPCASTT for each sonnet. Next, complete your Sonnet Comparison iRACES.

Sonnet 130 By: William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare. / Sonnet 127: Williams Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,
Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem
At such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,
Sland'ring creation with a false esteem:
Yet so they mourn becoming of their woe,
That every tongue says beauty should look so.

iRACES Prompt: Compare and contrast the differing viewpoints of the subjects of each sonnet. Be sure to pull evidence directly from the text.

TPCASTT:Poem Analysis Method
Title
What do you think the title of the poem means?
Paraphrase
Put the poem in your own words. Don’t summarize. Take important lines especially and put them in everyday speech.
Connotation
What literary devices are used? Why are they important?What do these devices add to the poem?
Attitude
What is the attitude of the speaker?
Shift
Shift = Change
What changes do you see in the poem?
Title revisited
Now that you have read the poem are there any new insights into the title?Do you think the title is significant?
Theme
What is the central idea or moral of the text?
TPCASTT:Poem Analysis Method
Title
What do you think the title of the poem means?
Paraphrase
Put the poem in your own words. Don’t summarize. Take important lines especially and put them in everyday speech.
Connotation
What literary devices are used? Why are they important?What do these devices add to the poem?
Attitude
What is the attitude of the speaker?
Shift
Shift = Change
What changes do you see in the poem?
Title revisited
Now that you have read the poem are there any new insights into the title?Do you think the title is significant?
Theme
What is the central idea or moral of the text?

Sonnet iRACES Graphic Organizer 21st Century Skills: Critical Thinking and Communication

Standards: W1, W4, W9, L1, L2, L4, L5, L6

Competencies: Graduation Competency 2 Construct Tasks appropriate writing for diverse purposes and audiences.Graduation Competency 5: Communicate information, reasoning, and supporting evidence that conveys a clear and distinct perspective. Graduation Competency 6: Employ the components of language (including conventions and word choice) effectively in written or spoken form.

Writing Prompt Question: / Directions: After completing the TPCASTT’s for both sonnets answer the prompt thoroughly using evidence from your texts.
Compare and contrast the differing viewpoints of the subjects of each sonnet. Be sure to pull evidence directly from the text.
i / indent / ●Indent your paragraph
R / Restate the Question / ●Did you restate the question in your own words?
A / Answer the Question / ●Does your answer to the question express a main idea (a point you are going to prove)?
C / Cite Evidence / ●Did you transition from your “A” (main idea sentence)?
●Do you have indirect information to prove your main idea?
●Do you have a direct quote to prove your main idea?
●Do all the details address the question?
●Did you pull information from all of the sources provided?
E / Explain the Answer / ●Does it begin with something like: This …shows that...
●Does it answer “Why?” and/or “How?”
●Does it use some key words from the citation?
●Does it explain fully?
●Does it reuse the (A) main idea with some new wording?
●Did you make sure all parts connect?
S / Sum It Up / ●Does your last sentence contain a summary of all of your answers?
●Did you restate your topic sentence in a new way?