The Tea Party Concluded

The Tea Party Concluded

Students today finished working on the enigmatic twenty-fourth chapter of Mockingbird, which includes this passage that stumps all the kids every year: Mrs. Merriweather nodded wisely. Her voice soared over the clink of coffee cups and the soft bovine sounds of the...
Tonal Shift: “The Lanyard”

Tonal Shift: “The Lanyard”

We went over “The Lanyard” today, beginning with Collins reading the poem at a poetry festival. Students were surprised to hear the audience laughing at certain points. We mapped out when exactly they laughed and realized a certain pattern: This led us to...
Tone Continued: “The Lanyard”

Tone Continued: “The Lanyard”

Today we continued working with tone, and we stuck with Billy Collins’s work, reading “The Lanyard” today. We began by building a little background knowledge about Proust’s madeleine: That completed, we focused on understanding the first three...