New Seats and More Poetry

We began the day with new seats, warmed up with a review of the unit 6 test, and spent the rest of the period on the poem copy assignment. These are due on Wednesday.

CST & Poetry

Today we wrapped up the Language Arts portion of the CSTs and spent the rest of the period on the second part of the poetry copy assignment.

More CST and Poetry

We talked a bit more about the CST and how we can be prepared, then continued our poetry work.

CSTs & Poetry

After some discussion of next week's CST testing, we continued the poetry work from yesterday.

So Much Poetry!

Today we began by sharing our pocket poems and then spent the rest of the day on our "We Real Cool" imitations.

Fun with "We Real Cool"

We began the day with a short review quiz on the poetry terms we've been working with, and then we spent the rest of the day writing poetry inspired by "We Real Cool."

More Poetry & Some Essay Reflection

Today we continued our poetry review with a look at some Jay Z lyrics and a few more notes. Then I returned research papers and students spend the remainder of the period working on the reflection assignment. This is due Wednesday.