Thanks for your comment, Betty. I'm hoping I can do it this quarter. I did hear from my new master teacher--we're supposed to meet tomorrow for coffee. Wow--a face-to-face meeting with no kids around, just to talk and plan together--I never got that with my first master teacher! I have high hopes for this placement and this teacher. Also, her email to me was very articulate and formal in a polite way--so different from my other MT's curt notes consisting of text-message-style abbreviations! Also, evil snooping person that I am, I googled her full name and found out she has an interest in poetry... maybe we're going to get along really well! I remember when I first started last quarter, helping my master teacher pass out the "poetry notebooks" for her class. "Cool!" I thought. Poetry in 2nd grade! But of course the "poems" turned out to be just little phonics rhymes. There was one real poem they saw while I was there -- a very nice, accessible one by Langston Hughes that would have made a great lesson--but alas, it was just an exercise out of the handwriting book--not a word was said about it as a poem!