A Little Skylark, A Little Nightingale, A Little Preparation

1: Just a reminder that with a college-level class, preparation is key to the understanding of the course, formulating ideas, and participating in class. This is he final reminder that it would behoove you to have your own copies of the tone texts and to have these readings prepared with notes. Today's class was, somewhat, lacking in preparation, so make sure to have all of your ethos regarding the tone work ready for tomorrow. For those in class today, we looked at our EAR tone poems, noting the tone words, patterns, and how EAR's poems compare and contrast. Then, we had a very in-depth and successful reading of "To a Skylark," looking at the poem's meaning and overall ideas. At the end of the hour, each person has the responsibility to identify the tones of specific stanzas and any rhetorical devices that pepper those stanzas. You will have limited time to confer with a partner tomorrow, so make sure you have the information ready to go. If absent, you are assigned stanzas 11-13. After we finish our tone work with "To a Skylark," we will have our last tone text, "Ode to a Nightingale." Make sure you are preparing for class. If you are not taking the initiative in the preparation side of things, it will not help when you have to write prompts on the material.

3: A little bit of everything today. 1. We finished our tone analysis of "Ode to a  Nightingale" with a flurry of tone words - some familiar to our "Skylark" tones. Hmmm. 2. You received your assessment for the tone unit: In regards to Percy Shelley’s “To a Skylark” and John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale,” compare and contrast the tone and other rhetorical devices used by these poets in their writing about birds. As with the last prompt, this may be handwritten or types and will be turned in via hard copy by Thursday, November 15, at 3:30 p.m. If absent for the entire day, you may send via digital methods and then turn in a hard copy.  3. We looked at pathos via advertisements and photographs and words to see the effect of pathos on an audience, namely you. 

5: We had a prep day today! I didn't hear from all groups today, but I know the group closest to me has some creative and thoughtful ideas for their topic. Prep days continue for the rest of this week, so make sure you are figuring out individual assignments and how the final presentation will be!