English 8 students went through the first entry in the fictional progress reports of Flowers for Algernon. We made some inferences about the narrator, about the additional characters, and about the first-person point of view.

English I students finished the poem “Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry” coming to the recognition that the whole poem is a poetic, metaphorical analogy:

We summarized it thusly:

• drizzle : snow :: prose : poetry
• drizzle : prose :: snow : poetry

We will be using the steps we applied to the poem in most of the poetry we study in the coming weeks.

Homework

• English 8: work on No Red Ink as needed.
• English I Honors: work on No Red Ink as needed.