SENIORS: Still working on the final draft of your slam poem. Presentations will be due on June 5th and 6th.  Everyone must be ready to go on the 5th. I'll start with volunteers and then randomly call names; if you tell me you're not ready, you'll lose 100 points.  You will still need to present, but you'll have to wait until everyone else has a their first chance to present.  If we run out of time, you're out of luck; I will not hear any presentations after school, during lunch, or before school; you lose those points.  IMPORTANT DATES: Friday, May 31 I'll be doing a notebook check (Word List of 100 words, Look Around Poem, "Louder Than a Bomb" notes, one Freewrite, 3 What Are You Doing warmups, and one Alliteration warmup) Monday, June 3 we'll be returning textbooks to the library (keep books you still need for finals). Finally, the deadline for the Slam Poem final draft is June 4.  If I don't see your poem before you present, you DON'T present.

SOPHOMORES: We started work on sonnets.  See me for the handouts.  Your Sestina and Slam poems were due today.  Keep working on your word list until you get to 100 words (real words, not "hat, cat, bat" words).