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__ Love that dog __ __Soccer Ball __ By: Hayley Rupp So much depends  upon   a black and white   soccer ball skidding across  the wet   grass   gliding into   the goal 1. Jack doesn't want to write poetry at the beginning of the book because Jack thinks that poetry is for girls, not boys.

2. I think the blue car was important to Jack because Jack probably had a strong connection to the blue car.

3. I think Miss Strechberry got interested when Jack kept adding more and more to the poem. I think she wanted to know more.

4. Jack responds like he is sad. He misses his old pet dog, he said that he died awhile ago. I think Miss Strechberry likes Jack's poems and insists he makes more.

5. Jack barrows other poets work because he finds connections to them and puts his emotion in them. Yes, borrowing other poets work seems to give a special style in Jacks own poems. In "Red wheel Barrow," Jack borrowed, "so much depends upon," and wrote describing words, like the poet did. In "Snowy Woods," he borrowed "so many miles to go before he sleeps," and he put it with his personal Blue Car poem.

6. Jack wants his early poems to be anonymous because he doesn't want others to know it's his. Jack thinks his own poem is bad, so he expects others will think his poem is bad too. Sometimes I have a hard time sharing my work with others because sometimes I think my work is bad, and I think others will also think it's bad.

7. Jack thinks that the wheelbarrow poet was just making a picture with words. He thinks that Mr. Robert Frost wrote a bunch of words and then his teacher typed them up so they looked like poems. I think he is beginning to make pictures with words because he describes the dog he saw at the pound. Some examples are are that he described the dog by saying "He had a wag-wag-wagging tail." Anot her one is "big black sad eyes". One more is "the dog was yellow".

8. I think the author's purpose to to entertain with a story about a boy named Jack, writing poems about his personal life. The author's audience can be for mostly anyone. It's most likely for kids to teenagers. The author is telling the story through Jack's point of view throughout the story. I think the author chose to have the point of view for Jack, and to be formatted in poems because it shows Jacks growth through out the poems he writes. It also let's the audience form their own pictures through the poems Jack writes.

9. Jack describes his street by saying that it is on the edge of the city, it has quiet music most of the time, it is thin, it has houses on both sides, his street does not have too much traffic, and there are signs that are on the ends off it, saying "caution children at play."

10. __ My Street __ By: Hayley Rupp In my street, it's quiet, there's only eight houses. You don't hear much loud hoking, and annoying screeches. You hear the, sound of peaceful birds, chirp, chirp. 11. Jack's feelings are changing from Jack not liking poetry to now liking poetry, now Jack is putting his name on the poems he writes instead of not putting a name at all. I know this because at the begging of the book, Jack said, "I don't want to write poetry, boys don't girls do, and he said, you can put my paper on the board but don't put my name on it. Now Jack says, "you can put my poem on the board, and if you want, you cant put my name on it."   13. Jack loved the poem by Walter Dean Myers because he said, "my dad calls me in the morning just like that, he calls, hey there son!" He also liked it because when Jack had his old yellow dog, named Sky, Jack would say, "hey there Sky."    15. Jack wrote different poems about what happened to his dog, Sky. Then in his poem called, "My Sky" he put all of his old poems about the blue car, in this poem. Jack used words he has already used in different poems like, wag-wag-wagging, blue car blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road, and thud thud thud, to describe what happened to Sky in descriptive words.