Children's EAR

Don't forget to have all the poems from last week read and ready to go for class tomorrow. While third and fourth hour are in the final throes of tone work, first and seventh hour still have a handful of texts left to tone map.

1: We went to "Chicago," finishing up the summary of the poem and constructing a tone map as a sample. A tone map (there are samples on previous blogs if you need a visual) begins with the poem itself: find the shifts in tone, assign a specific tone word to each section, select two words to act as a range, plot the points on the map, analyze a pattern. At the end of the hour, you started the beginnings of a tone map for "The Children's Hour" by identifying tone for each stanza. We will resume there tomorrow. To expedite time, I highly recommend selecting tone words for each stanza prior to class.

3 & 4: We spent some quality time with your "The Children's Hour" tone maps - looking at tone word meanings and reading the paragraph analyses. As noted, you should have a title to your tone map - we need to know what poem is being analyzed - and a solid paragraph with a topic sentence, transitioned evidence, and analysis prior to the concluding sentence. Next, we summarized those poor chaps "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy" prior to your assignment of a solo tone map for tomorrow's class. For this tone map, you are noting the shifts by line - not by stanza - and creating your map and paragraph analysis on construction paper. Absentees without construction paper may do the assignment on typing paper or (if the only option) notebook paper. Caleb, you will be in charge of a tone map for "Miniver Cheevy." Kennedy, you will also be working with "Miniver Cheevy."

7: Back from our lockdown drill and assembly, we resumed "The Children's Hour" by having you construct tone maps and analysis. In our circle on the floor, we looked over almost all of the tone map samples to provide feedback and tips for our upcoming tone maps. We will finish that up to start class and then be spending quality time with RC & MC.