Connotation and Fragments

Connotation and Fragments

Third period began looking at connotation and its role in poetry. We began examining Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” as we develop an understanding of this important concept. Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the...
Poetry Steps and Close Reading

Poetry Steps and Close Reading

English I Honors students finished up their examination of “Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry,” discovering that everything literally points back to the snow and drizzle of the first two lines, when then echo the prose and poetry of...
Starting the Bard

Starting the Bard

Students started the final series of poems in our poetry unit, turning to the poems of William Shakespeare in preparation for the next unit, which is on Romeo and Juliet.  We began parsing Shakespeare’s twenty-ninth sonnet: When, in disgrace with fortune and...