Language Objective: Join small group/whole class discussion about poetry and corresponding questions.
Essential Question: Have my reading comprehension skills improved and am I ready for the EOG?
Today we continued reading comprehension skills practice as we 
focused on decoding poetry. We read Whitetails, a poem about deer. I chose to save this 8th grade EOG sample for the day before testing because not only do the corresponding comprehension questions deal with mood, comparable situation, and inference, the poem's subject is one near and dear to many of my students who have had just about all the EOG review they can stand. I figured a poem about deer wouldn't be too tough to take. However, after that I hit them with Poe's Eldorado, a poem about teenagers, and Langston Hughes' Mother to Son. We finished the class by taking down every shred of thought-provoking material from the walls of the classroom.Homework: SSR, and get a good night's sleep.
