Practice

media type="youtube" key="Jl0F4rF95Rg" height="405" width="500" align="center" An **//awesomely-'80s//** PBS video to show DR-TA at work with in a fictional classroom.

==**Apply the DR-TA strategy to a poem, such as "Kitchenette Building" by Gwendolyn Brooks. **==

**What do you predict the poem will be about based on the title? **
We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan, Grayed in, and gray. “Dream” makes a giddy sound, not strong Like “rent,” “feeding a wife,” “satisfying a man.”
 * Now, read the first stanza of the poem: **

**Do you need to alter your prediction at this point? Go ahead, if it is necessary. On to stanza 2! **

But could a dream send up through onion fumes Its white and violet, fight with fried potatoes And yesterday’s garbage ripening in the hall, Flutter, or sing an aria down these rooms

**Unless you have read this text before, I doubt your original prediction is unaltered. Go ahead and change it again if you would like. Now to stanza 3 !**

Even if we were willing to let it in, Had time to warm it, keep it very clean, Anticipate a message, let it begin?


 * Consider what your prediction is for the final stanza. How will Brooks end the poem? How will the speaker end up? **

We wonder. But not well! not for a minute! Since Number Five is out of the bathroom now, We think of lukewarm water, hope to get in it.


 * I like to think Brooks adds a bit of humor at the end of the poem. How do you feel about the poem as a whole? How did your predictions change based upon what you read? Does your original prediction seem a little silly at this point? That's fine! **