English I students began working on the next poem, Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” We spent the day making our way through the very challenging poem, with each group focusing on one single stanza of the poem:

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

We’ll be using the poem tomorrow after students present and explain their stanzas to go over tone.

English 8 students began planning their second-quarter major writing project.

Unfortunately, my Promethean Board pen was acting wonky and

Homework

• English 8: 
  • work on chapter 1 comprehension questions for Nightjohn as necessary (if you have an NHI, email Mr. Scott when complete);
  • work on chapter 2 comprehension questions for Nightjohn as needed.
• English I Honors: 
  • review for parts of speech test next week as necessary;
  • work on paragraph evaluation as necessary.