1.  Show me Read like a Rock Star book and read for the first ten minutes of class; students absent last week need to take a make-up version of the test right now  Go over Short Essay #2—Poem Analysis, which is on your “Our Poetry Unit” Handout  Read and write poems, including: ◦ Those Winter Sundays-Write a poem about a childhood memory involving a relative ◦ Ask Me ◦ Doo Wop- Write a serious or comic poem which contains no more than two words per line ◦ White Lies ◦ Monologue for an Onion- Write your own Monologue for an inanimate object ◦ Dog Haiku- write a haiku ◦ Jabberwocky- Write a poem filled with nonsense words

2.  Guest Speaker: Ms. Phelps, librarian from SFCC, will go over all you need to know and more to research for your literary analysis  Begin working on poem analysis, if time

3.  Show me Read like a Rock Star book and read for the first ten minutes of class  Continue reading and annotation of The House on Mango Street ◦ Be aware that your annotation will be collected for a grade after we complete the reading of Mango Street in class!

4.  Read like a Rock Star for 10 minutes, then  Continue reading and annotating The House on Mango Street

5.  Take SAT/ACT Practice #3 in The Official SAT Study Guide- p. 189, p. 390  Work on Packet #3 ◦ Grammar Focus: Subject and verb agreement (p. 155-158; p. 163-164; p. 169-170) ◦ Vocabulary Focus: Words from Medical Science, Animal World, Numbers, Legal Language, Appearances and Attitudes (2)

6.  Work on Packet #3 in your cooperative learning groups