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 worked on a parts-of-speech review before the (likely) test on Friday. Afterward, we began working on tone in poetry. Students received an expansive list of tone words, which students will start learning over the next few weeks. English 8 students...
English 8 students continued with Algernon, working on more annotation strategies and commonly confused words on No Red Ink. We’ll be working on these commonly confused words throughout the year, so it was a good time to start. English I finished the tone/tonal...
English I Honors students had their final day of test prep/unit review today. I gave students a copy of the poems that will be on the test tomorrow, and they had the opportunity to collaborate on the interpretation of the poems. English 8 students finished up...
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