Tone and Modern Influence

Tone and Modern Influence

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...
Tone Words

Tone Words

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...

Tonal Shift and Skills Review

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...

Tone and Life Lessons

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...