Joelle Dalgleish

Dr. Jamison
Honors 9th Lit
September 3, 2015

Poetry Out Loud

The TPFASSTT for the Poetry Out Loud was a bit harder than I expected. It is
pretty hard to really and completely understand a poem. Once I did it I think it made the
poem a lot easier to recite. We had to find a poem we liked and explained it to where we
could understand it completely and actually know what the poem meant. When I knew
what everything meant it was easier to know what tone to use and how much emphasis to
put on everything. The poem, Beginnings by James Wright, had three examples of
personification and one example of symbolism. This poem talked about the moon, the
wind, and the wheat at night.
Im glad I did this for the poem, because now that I understand what it means it is
one of my favorites. I used narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description,
reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters
from standard ELAGSE-10W3.b. I also thought I was strong in drawing evidence from
literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research mentioned in
standard ELAGSE-10W9.