Villanelle and Summary

Villanelle and Summary

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...
Homework Only

Homework Only

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...
Tone and a New Unit

Tone and a New Unit

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...
Writing, Poetry, and Review

Writing, Poetry, and Review

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...