English I Students in English I finished looking at Billy Collins’s poem “The Lanyard” and the shift in tone that occurs in the poem. After watching Collins reading the poem, we made notes of when the audience laughed. This led the students to...
English I Students in third and fourth periods worked on tone in poetry, looking at a lovely poem by Billy Collins called “The Lanyard.” We didn’t quite get to the tonal question as we were working on establishing a basic understanding of how the...
English I English I students worked on tone in the poetry we’ve read thus far. We began with “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” noting the tone of defiance at the beginning of the poem and how the repetition of “do not go gentle”...
We went over “The Lanyard” today, beginning with Collins reading the poem at a poetry festival. Students were surprised to hear the audience laughing at certain points. We mapped out when exactly they laughed and realized a certain pattern: This led us to...
English I students continued working on tone and poetry today, finally learning what that funny line we kept drawing in poems is called. It’s the tonal shift, the spot in the poem where the tone changes. It’s accompanied by the lyric moment, which is where...
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