Hook and Test Prep

Hook and Test Prep

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...
Tone and Review

Tone and Review

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...
Tone and Accuracy

Tone and Accuracy

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...