This is your daily reminder to read the tone texts before class. All the texts are on a previous blog with links so that you may print these out and be able to take notes for all of our future tone mapping.
1: After our vocab quiz, we spent the rest of the hour with Keats' letters and the impressive analysis of diction that all of the groups provided today. Delving into his diction (and the adjectives qualifying his shifting tones throughout the progression of his illness and love affair with Fanny) and purpose, you presented a strong, clarifying, and engaging didactic lesson for all of your classmates. (I can't wait to see what you do with tone next week!). We will wrap up the letters - and our diction unit - on Monday.
3: What a fun, creative Friday, expressing all the attitudes of team positive, team negative, team humor, and team worry! From blaming shifts of a fighting family to a paranoid conspiracy theorist bothering the rest of his group, we had excellent examples of tone and the subtle shifts that occur amongst each voice in the group. We will do more with tone next week - including the ever-fun tone maps!
5: We were a little casual in class today, but I think that paid off dividends with the quality of tone maps and analysis for "The Children's Hour," which we will share on Monday. Then, it will be time for solo tone maps, so make sure you have previewed our next texts. I can always tell by the reaction to the ending of the poem who has read it and who has not!
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