Week of April 5 - April 9

Week at a glance: This week we will pick up where we left off....poetry. We will be finishing up Collection 2 and delving into the Harlem Renaissance era of poetry.

Monday: NO SCHOOL	TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF SPRING BREAK - NO SCHOOL
Tuesday: (Google Meeting Recording)	1. Class Agenda: Close study of Poetry Collection 2: "Danny Deevers" by Rudyard Kipling "The Guitar" by Frederico Garcia Lorca "Conscientious Objector" by Edna St. Vincent Millay "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg Due Today: Nothing
Wednesday: (Google Meeting Recording)	1. Class Agenda: Video "The Hill We Climb (Links to an external site.)download" by Amanda Gorman Harlem Renaissance slideshow and notes DUE TODAY: Nothing.
Thursday: (Google Meeting Recording)	1. Class Agenda: Analyze Harlem Renaissance poetry using F.L.I.R.T. "The Bean Eaters" by Gwendolyn Brooks "The Week of Diana" by Maya Angelou "Come, and be my Baby" by Maya Angelou "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes Introduce Maya Angelou Reader Response 2. Time to work on Maya Angelou Reader Response DUE TODAY: Maya Angelou Reader Response
Friday: (Google Meeting Recording)	1. Class Agenda: Read and analyze "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou Introduce Poetry Project (Presentations Tuesday 4/13) 2. Time to work on Poetry Project DUE TODAY: Nothing.

Looking ahead: Next week we will finish up the poetry unit. Tuesday we will present our poetry projects and Wednesday we will do a mock T.D.A. on poetry (like the E.O.C.) after that, we will get started with our unit on To Kill a Mockingbird.