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...
Today we continued working with tone, and we stuck with Billy Collins’s work, reading “The Lanyard” today. We began by building a little background knowledge about Proust’s madeleine: That completed, we focused on understanding the first three...
We finished up looking at tone in “My Papa’s Waltz,” determining that there was a somewhat-nostalgically playful tone in the poem. Afterward, students worked on Billy Collin’s poem “Forgetfulness.” Because of the time required at...
Today, we began looking tone by examining one of the most famous poems ever written: Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” We spent the day working our way through the poem, making sure everyone had a good understanding of the poem....
English 8 students returned to tone in poetry today, using the figurative language we’d discovered and analyzed in the poem “The Black Earth” we’d been working on for the last few days. We’ll be doing similar work during the next few...
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