English I students worked on “One Art,” finishing up the somewhat challenging poem and determining: the initial tone the location of the tonal shift the meaning of the lyric moment Afterward, we looked at “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke and...
We’re only going over homework today. It’s Friday — too tired to do much else. HomeworkEnglish 8 Studies: none.English I Honors: complete the questions for “The Lanyard” and complete the questions for “Do Not Go Gentle into...
English I students finished up “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” realizing that despite it’s apparent difficulty, it’s really a rather straightforward poem. Afterward, we used “Good Night” cover tonal shifts and the lyric...
English I students continued with tone, returning to “The Lanyard” to notice how the poet carefully built the humor: We’ll do some more tone work tomorrow, adding a new element to explain that precipitous drop at the end of the graph. English 8...
English I students had a final bit of in-class practice with parts of speech identification before tomorrow’s test. Afterward, we went over “The Lanyard,” covering first the allusion to Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past with a short story...
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