Ellie's+Poetry+Page

-Love That Dog Response Page-

1. Jack doesn't want to write poetry because he says that boys don't write poetry, girls do. He also says that his brain is empty and he just can't do it. 2. If I hadn't already read the book, I would think that maybe that blue car speeding down the street was one of his family members cars with them in it and that family member couldn't stop the car and crashed. When the car crashed, they could have been seriously hurt or could have even died. 3. Miss. Strechberry became so interested in Jack's first poem when he wrote about the blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road. I think that she wanted to learn more about the blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.

__Writing A Poem__ The White Car By: Ellie Holt

So much depends upon a white car shining in the bright sun beside the large tool bench

I chose to write about this item- my mom's white car because I use it everyday to get to sports and anywhere else that is not in walking distance. My whole family uses it and without it, we'd be walking a lot places, or just not even going to them.

4. Jack responds to Miss Strechberry when she asks him to write a poem by saying he doesn't have a pet and asking Miss Strechberry if he can just make up a pet. I think even though he doesn't want to write about his pet, I think that she insists because she wants to here about his pet and why he doesn't want to write or talk about that pet (his old dog Sky). 5. I think Jack borrows from other poems because he doesn't know what to write about and he takes the poems and adds his own twist on them to develop his own style of poetry. Examples of this are on page 8- when he borrows from the Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright and also on page 7- when Jack borrows from the Snowy Woods poem.

6. Jack wants his early poems to be anonymous because he doesn't want anyone to know he wrote the poems and just in case his classmates don't like the poems, they won't know who wrote them. Jack expects his classmates to react the same way he did to his own poems- that is not liking them. I also have a hard time sharing my work because I'm nervous that my classmates won't like or agree with my work.

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">7. Jack says that "the wheelbarrow poet was just making pictures with his words." Jack also says that what happened to him- someone like his teacher thought his "poem" was a poem, and typed it up and when people saw it typed up like that, they thought it was a poem, could have happened to Mr. Robert Frost and even the wheelbarrow poet. I think Jack is starting to make pictures with his words because he's imaging poetry better and relating them to things that happened to him in his own life experiences. Some examples of him of making pictures with his words are on page 9, 16, and also on pages 20-21.

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">8. I think the author's purpose of this book is to entertain you with a story about a boy, and the love he has with his dog through all his poems that he has to write in class. I think the author's audience for this book is for children. I think it's for children because the way the story is told and the characters in the story; I just don't feel like it would be for anyone else but children. The point of you the story is being told from is the main character's- Jack's point of you. I think the author chose this point of you and format for the story because to make the story different because you don't see many stories where the story is told through poems that the main character is writing about.

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">9. Jack describes his street as a quiet street and he also says that it is at the edge of the city. Words Jack uses to describe his street are- thin with houses on both sides of the road, quiet music, whisp, meow, swish, not busy/not much traffic, and he says that the kids of the neighborhood like to play in yards of the houses.

<span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">10. My Street Poem

<span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">My street, <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">quiet with peaceful <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">birds chirp, chirp <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">engines of cars passing <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">down the calm road <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">vroom, vroom, vroom <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">dogs barking in the <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">distance woof, woof <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">trees swaying <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">whoosh, whoosh <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">back and forth <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">in the wind <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">their leaves <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">crack and crunch <span style="color: #00ffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">on my quiet street

<span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">11. Jack's feelings about poetry have changed since the beginning of the book because now he's OK with his teacher, Miss Strechberry putting his name on his work when she wants to hang his poems up on the board. Jack says "Yes you can type up the yellow dog poem that looks like a dog but this time keep the spaces exactly the same and maybe it would look good on yellow paper. Maybe you could put my name on it. But only if you want to. Only if you think it looks good enough." <span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; line-height: 1.5;">13. He liked Mr. Walter Dean Myers poem so much because of two reasons. Jack says the reasons are "One, my dad calls me in the morning just like that. He calls Hey there, son! And also because when I had my yellow dog, I loved that dog, and I would call him like this- I'd say- Hey there, Sky! (His name was Sky)." I think Jack liked Mr. Walter Dean Myers poem so much because he could relate to the poem- Love That Boy so well. <span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">15. This poem that Jack writes builds on previous poems Jack has written because this poem give details about his dog Sky and what happened to Sky and especially why Jack had a hard time writing about Sky in the beginning of the book. Jack reuses his own words in this poem writing what he has written in previous poems and his lines that he got inspired by by other poets are-when Jack says "blue car, blue car splattered with mud, speeding down the road," from the red wheelbarrow poem, "and kept on going in such a hurry so fast, so many miles to go, it couldn't even stop to see Sky," from the snowy woods poem.