daily TEA

TEA
(Topic Evidence Analysis)

Every day when we walk into the classroom there will be an image, poem, or passage.

1. What do you notice?
2. What does it communicate? How does it communicate?
3. From small details infer larger implications.
4. T for TOPIC or THESIS: Make a claim.
5. E for EVIDENCE: Find one detail to back up your claim.
6. A for ANALYSIS: Explore the evidence and explain how it shows your claim.
7. Write a short paragraph in the TEA tradition.
8. You can blog it (with a picture), you can tweet it, you can text it (140 characters max).
9. Or you can write it on paper, even.
10. Share with someone or with the whole class.

Poems in College Reader to TEA
Musee de Beaux Arts (with image) Auden
Four Quartets Eliot
Safe S-x Donald Hall
Wedding Ring Denise Levertov
Inferno Dante
S-x without Love Sharon Olds
High School Senior Olds
I Go Back to May 1937 Olds
Barbie Doll and Smell in the Kitchen Marge Piercy
Wean Yourself Rumi
Annunciation (with image) Kay Smith
Leaving the Motel Snodgrass
The End and the Beginning Szymborska
Love Calls Us to the Things of the World Richard Wilbur
I wandered lonely as a cloud William Wordsworth