English Studies had their first of two debate preparations. They worked on claims, reasons, counterclaims, and rebuttals. We’ll have the debate on Friday, and it should be exciting.

English Strategies (fourth period) finished up the film version of Nightjohn. We’ll have a quick, short application of the work tomorrow and Friday and then move on to the next unit on Monday.

English I Honors students continued with yesterday’s work, determining what a lyric moment is and how it relates to a poem’s tonal shift. We went over several poems we’d looked at earlier in order to determine the tonal shift and lyric moment before heading off to apply it ourselves to “The Lanyard” by Billy Collins.

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: answer the short question on “The Lanyard” on the Moodle site.