Homework - 2/14/2007

• Science - Study for test
• Reading - Katie's Trunk - Study for test

We did not have homework on Tuesday because of the field trip to Davies Symphony Hall, and nothing today but studying because of our field trip to the DeYoung Museum to see a Young Performances presentation about Harriet Tubman for Black History Month.

We are also reading poetry for Black History Month. I have prepared three booklets of poems by African-Americans. One is a selection of poems by Langston Hughes, and the other two are a small collections by various poets, including Nikki Giovanni, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Lucille Clifton.

Some students, now up to fifteen a night, are to bring home one of these mini-books, read the poems, and be prepared the next day to share one that they like. The ultimate goal is to read a handful of poems at our Black History assembly on Friday, February 23.