We finished up looking at tone in “My Papa’s Waltz,” determining that there was a somewhat-nostalgically playful tone in the poem.

Afterward, students worked on Billy Collin’s poem “Forgetfulness.” Because of the time required at the beginning of the day for district-required benchmark testing, we only had enough time to work through the poem without doing any substantial work on the poem’s tone.

Homework

• English I Honors: complete the first three lines of analysis in the graphic organizer from Classroom: “Forget” name of the author … / followed obediently by the title …  (Tone here) decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain (Tone here) not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen