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...
English I went over tone in “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” to create a procedure for determining tone in a piece of writing (in this case, a poem). We also used the poem “My Papa’s Waltz” and the incorrect interpretation we...
I’m afraid something went wrong with the Google Meet recording today. The Meet for third and fourth periods went off without a hitch, except one: somehow, although I clicked “Record,” the session was not recorded. Fifth and sixth periods were...
All students began working on their No Red Ink work that will continue throughout the rest of the year. Details in the homework section above. English 8 students worked on chapter 3 from Nightjohn, looking to see what connections they could have made in their...
Students today finished working on the enigmatic twenty-fourth chapter of Mockingbird, which includes this passage that stumps all the kids every year: Mrs. Merriweather nodded wisely. Her voice soared over the clink of coffee cups and the soft bovine sounds of the...
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