English I Honors finished the passage from As You Like It as an introduction to the idea of an extended metaphor.

English 8 students continued working on their motif/theme project. We’ll have two more days of work on it.

Homework

• English 8: continue working on the article of the week as necessary.
• English I Honors: 
  • continue the IXL work on metaphors;
  • work on Quizlet vocab as necessary;
  • use Mark Strand’s “Coming to This” as practice for your test on Friday. You don’t need to write to write out the answers, but you might want to take notes about what you would write if this were the actual test. Remember the questions: 1) What is happening in the poem What is the poem really about? 2) Where is the tonal shift? What is the tone above it? What is the tone after it? 3) What is the lyric moment of the poem? What epiphany does the speaker have? 4) Discuss one example of figurative language in the poem. What does it add to the overall meaning to the poem?