Lanyard and NJ Completion

English I Honors students worked on Billy Collins’s poem “The Lanyard” as we finish up looking at tone, tonal shift, and the lyric moment. English 8 students worked on completing Nightjohn and applying effective readers’ skills on their own....

Tone and Chapter 4

English I Honors continued with tone, looking at “My Papa’s Waltz” after finishing “Do Not Go Gently.” English 8 students continued with Nightjohn — sprinting to the finish. HomeworkEnglish 8 Studies: none.English I Honors: ...

Chapter Four and Tone

English 8 students began working on chapter four from Nightjohn. We’re having a final practice of effective readers’ skills before next week’s test. English I Honors students began looking at the question of tone in a poem. We’ll move to tonal...

Lit Circles All Around

All classes were engaged today in lit circles in one form or another. The only exception was English Studies, which went over briefly how to determine tone in a poem: Look for repetitions. Determine the positive or negative nature of the repetitions. Look for more...
Tone

Tone

Today in class we read “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”.We went over the tone of the poem and discussed what the poem was about.We learned that this poem was a Tonal Shift poem which is a poem that shifts its tone at a certain time in a poem.And...