We finished up looking at tone in “My Papa’s Waltz,” determining that there was a somewhat-nostalgically playful tone in the poem. Afterward, students worked on Billy Collin’s poem “Forgetfulness.” Because of the time required at...
Today, we began looking tone by examining one of the most famous poems ever written: Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” We spent the day working our way through the poem, making sure everyone had a good understanding of the poem....
English 8 students returned to tone in poetry today, using the figurative language we’d discovered and analyzed in the poem “The Black Earth” we’d been working on for the last few days. We’ll be doing similar work during the next few...
English 8 students continued with the second of several sessions working with tone. We also went to the library for checkout. We’ll be embarking on silent sustained reading (well, maybe not quite so sustained) at the end of each period, so we needed to make sure...
English 8, after going over a term in the article of the week worked on tone some more. It’s a tricky subject that we’ll return to often. We worked on determining the tone of selected poems by following a four-step process: Determine the subject of the...
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