English 8 students continued working with Nightjohn, working through chapter five, the final long chapter.

English I Honors students began looking at Billy Collins’s “The Lanyard,” going over the homework and discovering a few new things.

Afterward, they got turned loose on their own with a new poem for complete analysis, Billy Collins’s “Forgetfulness.”

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: complete the analysis of “Forgetfulness” by answering the following questions:
  • Where is the tonal shift?
  • What is the tone above the shift?
  • What is the tone below the shift?
  • What constitutes the epiphany of the lyric moment?