Tone and Review

Tone and Review

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...
Tone and Accuracy

Tone and Accuracy

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...
The Tea Party Concluded

The Tea Party Concluded

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...