English 8 Strategies completed a test on the Schaffer model and the argument today, and creative writing continued working on individual student projects, including material for the main Hughes web site.

English I Honors students looked at connotation and the role it plays in poetry. We focused in the second half of class on “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden.

Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?

We compared it to a modified version in order to determine the role connotation plays in the poem. We’ll be finishing up the work Monday.

Homework

• English I Honors: 
  • complete the short story project and turn it in to the Moodle site by midnight tonight;
  • complete the work on connotation we began in class today.