hayden+love+that+dog

Love that dog

1. Jack does not want to write poetry because he says it is for girls.

2. I think that Jack was born in that blue car and that is why it is important to him.

3. Mrs. Strechberry likes the poem because she thinks that Jack wrote a good poem. She reads different poems to get Jack to write the poem more enthusiastically.

Paracord Bracelet

By: Hayden Browne

so much depends

upon

a black paracord

bracelet

melted from a burning

flame

on the wrist of

Hayden

4. Jack did not write the pet poem because he did not have a pet at the time.

5. Jack borrows ideas because he does not have experience writing poems. He borrows from the tiger and red wheelbarrow poem.

6. Jack is nervous about displaying his work because he thinks others will not like it. He wants his poems to be anonymous because if the kids do not like it he will be embarrassed. I have a hard time time sharing because the paper might be wrong or bad.

7. Jack says that the poets just make pictures and their teachers wrote the poems. He is beginning to make pictures in his head because he describes how objects look in his poems. examples are blue car, yellow dog, and red brick building.

8. The author's purpose is to pursuade kids to write poetry more. The audience is anyone who is reading the book. The point of view is 1st person from Jack's point of view.

9. Jack describes his street as a calm street that does not get the sounds of the city much.

10. I would describe my street as a calm street that has not a lot of visitors.

11. Jacks feelings of poetry are changing because he is beggining to say that he likes the poems that Mrs. Strechberry reads to the class and he lets her put his name on his poem that are on the board.

12. In Class

13. Jack liked Walter Dean Myers poem so much because he thought it was like him and the yellow dog.

14. In class

15. The poem builds on his other poems because it tells more and more about the yellow dog named Sky and the blue car speeding down the road. In this poem he uses strategies from every poem in the book to write this poem.