Tone Beginning

Tone Beginning

Today, we began looking tone by examining one of the most famous poems ever written: Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” We spent the day working our way through the poem, making sure everyone had a good understanding of the poem....
Schaffer Poems

Schaffer Poems

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...
My Papa’s PSAT Waltz

My Papa’s PSAT Waltz

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...
Connotation 2 Completed

Connotation 2 Completed

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...
Connotation

Connotation

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...