Happy Birthday, Keatsy

And on this 222nd birthday of Keats, here is an article on his appearance and his background: https://wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2016/08/18/picturing-john-keats/.
And, here is a poem by Keats that puts us Halloween folk in the mood: https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/tis-witching-time-night.
And, here is a website dedicated to Keats' letters and his relationship with Fanny: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/keats/.
And, last but not least, a poem about Keats by Christina Rossetti (remember her from "A Birthday): https://hellopoetry.com/poem/16119/on-keats/.

Meanwhile, you should be firmly in the process of the Lucy Grealy experience: checking out one of the memoirs, reading the chapters, constructing a log for each chapter as assigned. This is due in less than 5 weeks, which may seem like a long time, but it will catch up to you if you fall behind.

1: We finished our diction unit with a flourish! Our Keats letter groups gave us diction, evidence, and purpose to help you set up a pattern for composing your diction prompt, which is due by 3:15 p.m. on Thursday. You may complete this as a handwritten or typed product, and if you are here at any part of the day on Thursday, it is due by the given time in hard copy format. If absent all day, you will need to share, e-mail, or send a picture of the work and turn in the hard copy the next time around. At the end of the hour, you received your tone handouts: the umbrella and big kid's words. We will be working with those tomorrow.

3: We began with your tone dialogues and identified the various tone of team positive, team negative, team humor, team sorrow, and team neutral. Then, we began our tone map sample using "Chicago," a poem that you read from a previous blog post. For a tone map, you break the text into sections by each shift, then you identify a specific tone word for each section, then you identify two tone words that complete a range for our map, then you plot the tones accordingly, then you connect the dots. Then, the bell rings, and we did not finish the analysis portion of the tone map, which we will do tomorrow. At least we have a great tone map to review tomorrow! For homework, prep the tones for each stanza in "The Children's Hour."

4: We jumped into tone mapping from our opening minutes, utilizing "Chicago" for its shifts and analytical meaning. As noted under third hour, you need to identify shifts, tone words, range words, and plotting points on the map prior to the analysis portion. With a strong tone map, you noted that a pattern of jingoism continues to build and become stronger throughout the latter stages of the poem, which is directly contrasted with the more vituperative perspective in the opening lines. Furthermore, you concluded that this was an argument with a claim (the outsider) and the counterclaim (the insider) and how this delineates Chicago. For homework, identify a tone for each stanza of "The Children's Hour."

Note to self - Don't use pastel and lighter colors to create tone maps :)

7: You and third hour will be in the exact same spot. However, your tone map is below.