TODAY IN CLASS
Main work:  Dylan Thomas's "Fern Hill" 
Time to establish TONE (dominant, then the differently-tinged ending tone) by looking at the following features: 
Color, music, allusions, imagery, "odd" similes, verse form, repetition, sound devices.
Do this on your own if you missed class today.
However, it's hard to replicate the direction discussion took without in-put from the class.

1st period--also discussed main features for the Tess timed-write from last week and got those back. 3rd/6th--be sure that you've gone through the process outlined in yesterday's blog if you have any feeling that you might not have given this passage the coverage it deserves.  You will get these tomorrow (and people in 3rd who will be taking a calculus test, be sure to drop by to pick yours up if you are also taking the English test on Thursday.

I intended to put the rubric on Google docs temporarily, but only as "May essay rubric." Turns out it is encrypted in such a way that that cannot be done.  So you will need to look at it tomorrow.