Happy St. Patrick's Day! 
Today we read for ten minutes then spent the remainder of the time exploring the extended metaphor in the poem "Mother to Son".
Homework is to write a paragraph in your reader's notebook in the reflection section that makes a connection between the poem and the short story "Thank You Ma'am".
If you were absent today be sure to:
Look over the poem and consider each full sentence's message and look carefully at the metaphors used in the poem.
