English 8, still learning how several in-class engagements work, did their first “Somebody Wanted But So” post-reading engagement today. They worked on chapter 5 from Nightjohn, using SWBS to summarizing their reading.

English I Honors students began a several-day look at tone by examining Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.”

Homework

• English 8: 
  • complete the SWBS for chapter 5 of Nightjohn;
  • work on IXL;
  • work on the article of the week as necessary.
• English I Honors: 
  • do some research on the poem and the poet’s father;
  • come up with one word to describe the speaker’s attitude toward the impending death of his father (and “mad” or “sad” are inadequate);
  • work on IXL;
  • work on the article of the week as necessary.