Today in first and fourth periods we explored the poetic form known as the villanelle. We evaluated the patterns in poems such as “The Waking” and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” to determine the rules for villanelles. Then we took a...
Today in first and fourth periods we looked at tone again and evaluated some more of Billy Collins’ poems. We mostly looked at “The Lanyard” because of the tone change. The Lanyard The other day I was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this...
Today in first and fourth periods we evaluated “My Papa’s Waltz” and started on “Forgetfulness”. We also talked about and learned to identify tone and mood in a poem. Second and fourth periods began reading the dramatization of Anne...
First and fourth periods looked at rhyming and rhythm. We looked at the poem called “Papa’s Waltz” and “The Gift.” We looked at the pattern of stressed and unstressed words. Second and seventh periods completed their first quarter...
First and fourth Periods finished looking at the poem by Denise Levertov, and looked at it’s meaning. Intrusion After I had cut off my hands and grown new ones something my former hands had longed for came and asked to be rocked. After my plucked out eyes had...
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