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”...
English I students continued with tone, looking at Billy Collins’s poem “Forgetfulness.” We determined the tone after a bit of work and learning a new word: flippant. English 8 students had a quick review of Schaffer organizational techniques as we...
English I went over tone in “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” to create a procedure for determining tone in a piece of writing (in this case, a poem). We also used the poem “My Papa’s Waltz” and the incorrect interpretation we...
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