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...
Tenor and Vehicle

Tenor and Vehicle

We began by looking at the first question for the new article of the week. Early in the piece, there is a challenging sentence that we went over: I have become consumed with an alarming possibility: that neither the polls nor the actual outcome of the election really...