Tone Words

Tone Words

These are the choices for questions about tone on the test Monday: apprehensive conceited introspective objective ominous optimistic passionate playful pretentious reflective romantic sardonic sympathetic tender...

Tonal Shift and Skills Review

English I students continued working on tone and poetry today, finally learning what that funny line we kept drawing in poems is called. It’s the tonal shift, the spot in the poem where the tone changes. It’s accompanied by the lyric moment, which is where...

Tone and Life Lessons

English 8 students had a little discussion about the effects of not doing one’s homework. We looked at the difference in district policy at middle school (where not handed in work results in a grade-floored 50) and at high school (where not handed in work...

Phrases and Tone

English 8 was a little on the empty side today: almost half the students were out for a field trip, so we did some more practice on IXL with those who remained. English I Honors students continued with subordinate clauses, taking a day-long break from Mockingbird to...

Blocking and Tone

English 8 students almost finished up tone with “The Tell-Tale Heart,”  identifying passages that serve as evidence for our established tone of frantic paranoia. We’ll finish up tomorrow. English I Honors students looked carefully at their blocking...