Matthew's+Love+That+Dog+Responses

1. In the beginning of the book, Jack doesn't want to write poetry because he thinks that girls write poetry and boys don't.

2. I think the car is important to Jack because it might have been passed down to him from his ancestors. He also might have had it since he was little.

3. Mrs. Stretchberry was interested in his first poem because she wanted to know why so much depended on the blue car. She reads other poems to inspire him and then she makes him write about the blue car.

Pencil By Matthew Poon

so much depends

upon

a yellow

pencil

long and

thin

in the dark

desk

4. Jack's response to Mrs. Stretchberry is that he doesn't have a pet and he can't write about the pet he used to have. I think Mrs. Stretchberry insists Jack writes a poem about a pet because she wants him to learn how to write poems about many different things. 5. Jack borrows ideas from other poems to make his poems better and to get ideas. Borrowing ideas from other poems does help him develop his own style. He borrows ideas from the Tiger Tiger Burning Bright poem, and from the Snowy Woods poem. 6. Jack wants his early poems to be anonymous because he doesn't want anyone to think he is a good poet. He expects people to think his poems are really good. I don't have a problem with sharing my work because I'm proud of my work. 7. Jack says that maybe Mr. Robert Frost and the Wheelbarrow poet were just making a picture with words and someone else typed it up and then people thought it was a poem because it looked like one typed up on paper. Jack is starting to make pictures with words like in his street poem, his small poem, and his poem where he gets a dog. 8. The author's purpose is to entertain and maybe persuade. The audience for this book is children. The author is telling the story from a first person point of view. I think the author chose this point of view to show what Jack thinks and to show how he progresses as a poet. 9. He describes it as thin, with houses on both sides, not much traffic, yellow signs on the ends of the street, and children playing in the yard. 10. My street is wide and long  it has lots of houses   it's quiet and there are people   walking their dogs and jogging   there is not much traffic at all   the houses are big very too the trees are very small and there is not many of them  there are lots of hills also. 11. Jack is starting to like writing a little more than he used to but still doesn't love it. I know this because Jack is starting not to complain about writing poetry as much and he also let Mrs. Stretchberry put his name on his My Yellow Dog poem. 13. Jack likes the poem by Mr. Walter Dean Myers because his dad calls him in the morning just like that. He calls //Hey there son!// He also liked it because when Jack had his dog he would call him by saying //Hey there sky!// 14.  Bird   By Matthew Poon Love that bird  Like a bear loves to sleep   I said love that bird   Like a bear loves to sleep   Love to play sports with my family 15. This builds on the Blue Car poems and the poem when he picked his dog at the animal shelter. Jack reuses his own words in his letter to Mr. Walter Dean Myers. You can find lines that are inspired by other poets in his My Sky poem when he writes "Hey there son!"