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CHAI Reading: due May 8, 2013

• Genre: Historical Fiction
• Book Review: Posted to Shelfari AND linked on blogfolio
  CHAI-light:  Assume the persona of your book’s protagonist and write a blog post using his/her voice.  Post to blogfolio with reflection.

POETRY Recitation: week of May 20-24

• 6:  “How To Eat A Poem” and other sensory works
• 7:  Assorted poems by Frost, Browning, Dickinson, Poe, Donne, etc.
• 8:  Shakespeare’s monologues

POETRY Written Exam: May 29

Clip art licensed from the Clip Art Gallery on DiscoverySchool.com

Wake up early on the morning of testing

Eat a good breakfast, don’t be late

Your mind is blank-you wish you were resting

Will  you do well?  It’s all up to fate

You are sitting in the classroom

Your  pencils  must be #2

Time is limited, and  you must zoom

The test begins-the minutes are few

Have no fear

How will you do?

No pressure here

It’s all up to you

Out on your own

Cold and alone… again

Now it’s slowly tearing me apart

Grey would be the color if I had a heart.

This place where I sought out to hide

Screaming outward to shoot me back inside

Where death is all I see

It’s just a fading reminder of how I used to be.

Authored by Victoria L.