English 8 students continued working on their cumulative first-quarter writing assessment in which they analyzed the author’s use of language in creating an effective voice for the narrator of Nightjohn. Today we worked on the hook, which should echo both the...
English I continued with “Sonnet 29,” looking today at the second half of the poem and examining it for two elements: Two examples of inversions (there are four in the final lines); One long phrase we can bracket out of the poem After doing so, students...
English I students continued with tone, looking at Billy Collins’s poem “Forgetfulness.” We determined the tone after a bit of work and learning a new word: flippant. English 8 students had a quick review of Schaffer organizational techniques as we...
English I went over tone in “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” to create a procedure for determining tone in a piece of writing (in this case, a poem). We also used the poem “My Papa’s Waltz” and the incorrect interpretation we...
I’m afraid something went wrong with the Google Meet recording today. The Meet for third and fourth periods went off without a hitch, except one: somehow, although I clicked “Record,” the session was not recorded. Fifth and sixth periods were...
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