1. AP Agenda for March 7, 2011 AP Exam on The House on Mango Street (multiple choice and argument essay)

2. AP Agenda for March 9, 2011 Continuation of AP Exam on The House on Mango Street (synthesis and rhetorical essay) For those of you who will be gone Friday for Chalk Walk, here is your make-up work: ◦Write an at least ten line poem which includes the following words if you are absent:  spring,  licorice,  wave,  glemious (which means slimy and can be adopted at www.savethewords.org) www.savethewords.org  graduating

3. AP Agenda for March 11, 2011 Work in groups on Poetry Kit exercises Work on project and packet on The House on Mango Street Note: Many of you will be gone this day for Chalk Walk; you need to write an at least ten line poem which includes the following words if you are absent: Spring, licorice, wave/d, glemious (which means slimy and can be adopted at www.savethewords.org), and graduating. www.savethewords.org), and graduating.

4. DE Agenda for March 8, 2011 Song Presentations Read: ◦next to of course god america i (p. 703) ◦Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter (p. 721) ◦Birthday Cake (p. 721) ◦Metaphors (p. 735) Write poems on your favorite birthday memory and/or a poem containing metaphors.

5. DE Agenda for March 10, 2011 Read: ◦Turtles (p. 745) ◦Richard Cory (p. 754) ◦Ballad of Birmingham (p. 759) ◦Recital (p. 774) ◦The Hippopotamus (p. 780) ◦We Real Cool (p. 793) ◦Do not go gentle into that good night (p. 824) ◦Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (p. 838) Write poem on Thirteen Ways of Looking at… Final Draft of Poem Analysis due to www.turnitin.com by 11:59 pm tonightwww.turnitin.com Assign Poetry Alive, which is worth 75 points, and work on it.

6. SAT/ACT Agenda for March 8, 2011 Do SAT/ACT Practice #4 Go over essays from last unit and peer edit Work on packet

7. SAT/ACT Agenda for March 10, 2011 Work on packet