K: The Gruffalo, by Julia Donaldson; If I Never Forever Endeavor, by Holly Meade
1st: The Circus Ship, by Chris Van Dusen
2nd: Read aloud any poems the students brought; five poems from Song of the Water Boatman, by Joyce Sidman, with PowerPoint slides
3rd: Read aloud any poems the students brought or poems from my “bag o’ poems”; if extra time, read Emma’s Poem, by Linda Glaser
4th: Read aloud any poems the students brought, their “Blackout Poems,” or poems from my “bag o’ poems”
5th: My Country ‘Tis of Thee: How One Song Reveals the History of Civil Rights, by Claire Rudolf Murphy