English I students continued with tone, returning to “The Lanyard” to notice how the poet carefully built the humor:

We’ll do some more tone work tomorrow, adding a new element to explain that precipitous drop at the end of the graph.

English 8 students began a new unit in time for Halloween: we’ll be studying the horror genre. We began with some discussion and framing today.

Homework

• English 8: 
  • make sure you have turned in your argument paragraph (Google Classroom);
  • complete all No Red Ink.
• English I Honors: 
  • study for the first tone word vocab quiz next week;
  • prepare for the parts of speech re-take by searching online resources (“part of speech identification practice” in Google) (as needed)