English 8 students continued with the second of several sessions working with tone. We also went to the library for checkout. We’ll be embarking on silent sustained reading (well, maybe not quite so sustained) at the end of each period, so we needed to make sure...
English 8, after going over a term in the article of the week worked on tone some more. It’s a tricky subject that we’ll return to often. We worked on determining the tone of selected poems by following a four-step process: Determine the subject of the...
These are the choices for questions about tone on the test Monday: apprehensive conceited introspective objective ominous optimistic passionate playful pretentious reflective romantic sardonic sympathetic tender...
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...
English 8 students had a little discussion about the effects of not doing one’s homework. We looked at the difference in district policy at middle school (where not handed in work results in a grade-floored 50) and at high school (where not handed in work...
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