English I students continued with tone, looking at Billy Collins’s poem “Forgetfulness.”

We determined the tone after a bit of work and learning a new word: flippant.

English 8 students had a quick review of Schaffer organizational techniques as we planned not one but three rather complicated paragraphs comparing and contrasting Henry Box Brown’s slave narrative with the events in Nightjohn.

We planned fully one whole paragraph and discussed how we could write two other paragraphs doing the same thing:

Students will have the opportunity to earn some extra credit by taking these very roughly planned paragraphs and actually writing out the paragraphs. The amount of credit earned will depend on the quality of the paragraphs submitted.

Homework

• English 8: 
  • work on the one-pager as necessary (turn in today);
  • work on No Red Ink as needed (due tomorrow);
  • work on the article of the week as necessary (due tomorrow).
• English I Honors: 
  • begin the initial analysis of “Those Winter Sundays” for tomorrow;
  • work on the one-pager as necessary (turn in today);
  • work on No Red Ink as needed;
  • work on the article of the week as necessary.