English 8 students had their first practice Socratic Seminar today. We’ll be having a real one tomorrow on a more academic topic: today we went over the rules and discussed — heavy topic here — favorite snacks. English I students worked on a highly...
English I students worked on figurative language today, focusing on the difference between tenor and vehicle. We did some work identifying them before turning our attention to the poems we’d already read this quarter. English 8 students completed their final...
English I Students in English I finished looking at Billy Collins’s poem “The Lanyard” and the shift in tone that occurs in the poem. After watching Collins reading the poem, we made notes of when the audience laughed. This led the students to...
English I Students in third and fourth periods worked on tone in poetry, looking at a lovely poem by Billy Collins called “The Lanyard.” We didn’t quite get to the tonal question as we were working on establishing a basic understanding of how the...
English I English I students worked on tone in the poetry we’ve read thus far. We began with “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” noting the tone of defiance at the beginning of the poem and how the repetition of “do not go gentle”...
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