bryan+love+that+dog+poem

1 the snow is like a blanket to me 2 and the world but isted of wool or coton it is snow 3 the outside world is cold but staying by the fire might help 4 the outside is quite,deer room around looking for food in the snow 5 there is sliance in the air no birds cherping no grass in yards 6 i think winter is a time to relax by the fire with family playing cards.

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

2 I think that the bule car was important because a bule car killed his dog named Sky.

3 Miss Strechberry is interested in Jack`s first poem because she suspects there is more to the story about the blue car. To get Jack to write more poems she aks questions about the first poem.

4Jack`s response is he can`t write one because he does not have a pet. Miss Strechberry insists that Jack writes a poem about a pet because she wants him to.

5 Jack is taking ideas form other poems so he can practice writing poetry. Borrowing ideas from other poems helps Jack figure out which style of poetry is better for him. Two examples: He use the ideas like the small poems from a poem.

6. Jack wants his poems to be annonymous because he doesn't want to talk about his feelings when his dog died. He expects his classmates to ask questions about his dog. Yes, I have a hard time sharing my work because I am afraid people will make fun of me.

7 Jack did not get the poem they read yesterday. He makes pictures with words like the snowy woods,pasture and his teacher. . 8. The author's purpose is to try and persuade us to write poetry. The author's audience is school age children. The author is telling the story from Jack's point of view. He wrote it from Jack's point of view because school aged children would understand the book better than if it were an adult's point of view.

9 he discribes his street as thin which probaly means his steer is narrow and not much traffic which means his street is calm.

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my street is quite but full of life. i live in a house on the right side. On quiet days the neighborhood kids are not playing outside. The street is empty. When it is full of life the neighborhood kids are outside playing,kids are laughing and yelling, running and playing.

11 Jack's feelings about poetry is starting to change. He like writing poems more often. He worte to an author and asked him to come to his school and read some poetry.

13 Jack liked the poem by Walter Dean Myers because both Jack and Mr. Myers wrote about something that they loved. He took the book home to copy the poem and hung this on the wall.

15 My Sky poem builds on to the The Blue Car poem because it tells you the rest of the story about the blue car and his dog. The car hit his dog a nd jacks dad brought him to the yard where he died.