Today we combined two of our favorite things: poetry and Schaffer analysis. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be creating Schaffer paragraphs simply by planning them: we won’t actually write them, but we’ll do the hardest part of of it. We also went...
We had the PSAT today, so many students were out during class. No matter — it’s recorded and posted on Google Classroom. We began the day with a short open-note quiz on the two poems we just finished and on poetry in general. We followed that with a short...
Students today completed Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” with the annotations below: Students who did not view the streamed class need to view the recording now on Google Classroom. (“But Mr. Scott! It’s so late in the day! I’m...
Today we began working on connotations by looking at Robert Hayden’s excellent poem “Those Winter Sundays.” After defining connotations through a modified form of inductive reasoning, we looked at the poem. Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in...
We finished going over today the poem “Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry.” An annotated copy is below. We also completed the list of actions for understanding a poem: Read the poem (including the title) Make sure you understand all...
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