Lanyard and NJ Completion

English I Honors students worked on Billy Collins’s poem “The Lanyard” as we finish up looking at tone, tonal shift, and the lyric moment. English 8 students worked on completing Nightjohn and applying effective readers’ skills on their own....
Tonal Shift and a Quiz

Tonal Shift and a Quiz

English I Honors students continued working with tone to see what the tonal shift and accompanying lyric moment of a poem is. English 8 students took a quiz on chapter four after reviewing the in-class work of the last few days and working on the article of the week....
Socratic Seminars and Lyric Moments

Socratic Seminars and Lyric Moments

English 8 Strategies students had a discussion in the form of a Socratic seminar about topics related to our final project for the quarter, analytic paragraphs about the selections they are reading in literature class. For Flowers for Algernon, discussion questions...
Tone and Gifts

Tone and Gifts

First period began act one, scene five of The Diary of Anne Frank. As fifth period did Friday, we examined the gifts Anne gives the various inhabitants of the Secret Annex. Second and fourth periods continued looking at the question of tone in a poem. We looked at two...