English I students worked on “One Art,” finishing up the somewhat challenging poem and determining:

1. the initial tone
2. the location of the tonal shift
3. the meaning of the lyric moment

Afterward, we looked at “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke and used that and the other two villanelles to determine the woven construction of that poetic form.

English 8 students finished up the literary criticism piece “What Is the Horror Genre?” that we worked on last week.