Love That DogBy: Sharon Creech

Pages 22-59

Love That Dog: Pages 22-24

Remember the wheel barrow poem You read The first weekOf school?

Maybe the wheelbarrow poet Was justMaking a picture with wordsAnd someone elseLike maybe his teacher Typed it up And then people thought It was a poemBecause It looked like one Typed up like that.

January 17th And maybeThat’s the same thing That happened with Mr. Robert Frost. Maybe he was justMaking pictures with wordsAbout the snowy woodsAnd the pasture—And his teacherTyped them upAnd they looked like poemsSo people thoughtThey were poems.

Like how you did With the blue-car things And reading-the-small-poems thingsOn the board

Typed up They look like PoemsAnd the other kidsAre looking at themAnd they thinkThey really are Poems And they Are all saying Who wrote that?

What does “making pictures with words” mean?

Love That Dog: Pages 25-27

We were going for a drive

And my father said

We won’t be gone long –

You come too

And so I went And we drove and droveUntil we stopped at aRed brick buildingWith a signIn blue lettersANIMAL PROTECTION SHELTER

January 24th And inside we walked Down a long cement path Past cages With all kinds of Dogs Big and smallFat and skinny

Some of them hiding in the cornerBut most of them Bark-bark-barking and Jumping up Against the wire cageAs we walked past, as if they were saying “Me! Me! Choose me!I’m the one!

And that’s where we saw The yellow dogStanding against the cageWith his paws curledAround the wireAnd his long red tongueHanging outAnd his big black eyesLooking a little sad And his long tail

Wag-wag-waging As if he were saying Me me me! Choose me!

and we did. We chose him!

Love That Dog: Pages 25-27

And in the car He put his head Against my chestAnd wrapped his pawsAround my armAs if he were saying Thank you thank you thank you!

And the other dogs In the cages Get killed dead If nobody chooses them.

January 24th

1. What techniques did Jack borrow from Robert Frost, Carlos Williams and William Blake?

2. What new information did we learn about Jack’s yellow dog?

3. How did you feel when we read “other dogs get killed dead if nobody chooses them?”

Love That Dog: Pages 28-30

Yes

You can type up

What I wrote

About my yellow dog

But leave off the part

About the other dogs

Getting killed dead

Because that’s too sad

And don’t put

my name on it

Please

January 31th And maybe it would look good on yellow paper

And maybe the title should be YOU COME TOO.

February 7th

Yes It does look goodOn yellow paperAnd you forgot (again) To leave more spaceBetween the lines Like I did when I wrote itBut, that’s okay though!

Why do you think Jack doesn’t want recognition for his poems?

Love That Dog: Pages 31-34

I like that poem we read today

About street music

In the city.

My street is not in the middle

Of the city

So it doesn’t have that LOUD music

Of horns and trucks

CLASHFLASH SCREECH

My street is on the edge

Of a city

February 15thAnd it has quiet musicMost of the timeWHISPMEOWSWISH

My street is a THIN one With houses on both sidesAnd my house is The white one With the red door.

There is not too much traffic On my street– Not like in the middle of a city

We play in yards and sometimes

In the streetBut only if a grown up Or the big kidsAre out there, too, And they will shout CAR! If they see a car Coming down our street.

At both ends of our streetAre yellow signs that say Caution! Children at Play!But sometimes the cars pay No attention And speed downThe road As if they are in a big hurry With many miles to go Before they sleep.

Love That Dog: ______ Music Poem In page 6 and 7 of your response journal please create a Venn diagram.

Compare and contrast your street you live on with Jack’s.

Please have at least 6 examples (total)

“___________ MUSIC”

Think of a place with specific sounds.

You must incorporate at least 5 examples of Onomatopoeia.

Your poem can be any format you choose!

JACK’S Street Your Street

“________ Music” Poem

Restaurant Music Inspired by “Street Music” By: Mrs. Ritchie

This restaurant:Always has busy noiseScuffling around the placeChatter of patronsYelling of cooks in the kitchen

V o c a b u l a r i e s Of BANGING CLASHING SCRAPING SIZZLING POPPING

Friers and Grills Many Language Combinations

As Background music Silently plays as Chaos Ensues

A rock band Of different beatsAnd Rhyhms Stuck in my head

With this always noise Restaurant Music

Love That Dog: Pages 35-37

That was so great

Those poems you showed us today

Where the words

Make the shape

Of the thing

That the poem

Is about---

Like the one about an apple

That was shaped like an apple

And the one about the house

That was shaped like a house

My brain was pop-pop-popping

When I was looking at those poems

I never knew a poet person

February 21st

Could do that funny Kind of thing

I tried one of those poems That look like What’s it about

February 26th

Love That Dog: Concrete Poetry

On page 8 of your response book, you will pick a topic and create your own Concrete Poetry.

Check these

out!

Love That Dog: Pages 38-41

YesYou can type up

The yellow dog poem

That looks like a dog

But this time

Keep the spaces

The same

And maybe

It would look

Really really 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.

March 1stI was a little embarrassed When people said Things to me like Neat poem, Jack And How’d you think of that, Jack?

And I really really like The one you put up About the tree That is shaped like a treeNot a fake-looking freeBut a real tree With straggly branches.

But I want to know Who is the Anonymous poet In our class

Who wrote that And why didn’t He Or She Want to put His or her nameOn it?Was it like me when I didn’t think my wordsWere Poems?

Maybe you will tell The anonymous tree poet That his or her tree poem Is really a poem Really really And a good poem, too.

March 7th

Love That Dog: Pages 42-45

That was the best best BEST poem You read yesterday By Mr. Walter Dean Myersthe best best BEST poem ever.

I am sorry I took the book homewithout asking. I only got one spot on it. That’s why the page is torn.

I tried to get the spot out.

I copied that BEST poem and hung it in my bedroomright over my bed

March 14th where I can See it when I’mLying down

Maybe you could copy it tooand hang it on the wallIn our class Where we can see it when we are sitting at our desksdoing stuff

I sure loved that poem by Mr. Walter Dean MyersCalled “Love That Boy”.

Because of two reasonsI liked it: One because my dad calls Me in the morning Just like that He calls “Hey There Son!”

And also because when I had my yellow dogI loved that dog and would call him.

Like this- I’d Say Hey There, Sky!(His name why Sky)

“Love That ______” Dean Walter Myers Inspired Poem

On page 9 of your response books, please construct a “Love That ________” poem imitating Dean Walter Myers poem “Love that Boy”.

You need to include at least 2-3 similes in your poem!

Love That Football

Love to play footballJust like my brother.I said I love to play footballJust like my brother.I love to tackle the other playersand help to win the game.

Love that lasagnaCheese in the middle.I said I love that lasagna,Cheese in the middle.Love to eat it in the morning,Love to eat it,Yum, yum, yum.

it's got cheese like pizza,Meat like burgers.I say it's got cheese like pizza,And meat like burgers.We can eat it when we happy,We can eat it when we sad.

Love That Lasagna

Love That Dog: By Jack

Love that dog, like a bird loves to fly I said love that dog like a bird loves to fly Love to call him in the morning love to call him “Hey there, Sky!”

Love That Dog: Pages 46-48

My Yellow dog followed me everywhereevery which way I turnedhe was there wagging his tailand slobber coming outof his mouthwhen he was smilingat me all the timeas if he was saying “thank you thank you thank you for choosing me”

And jumping up on me his shaggy straggly pawson my chestlike he was trying to hug the insides right out of me.

March 22

And when us kidswere playing outsidekicking the ballhe’d chase after itand push it with his nosepush push pushand getting slobberall over the ballbut no one caredbecause he was such a funny dogthat dog SkyThat straggly furry Smiling Dog Sky.

And I’d call him Every morning every evening Hey there, Sky!

1. What poem is Jack imitating?

2. What mood is this poem?

3. Why do you think Jack is starting to write about his old pet?

Love That Dog: Pages 49-54

Yes, you can type up What I wrote about My dog Sky but don’t type up that other secret one I wrote-the one all folded upin the envelope with tape on it. That one uses too many of Mr. Walter Dean Myers’s words and maybe Mr. Dean Myer’s would get mad about that.

March 27 I was very glad to Hear that Mr. Walter Dean Myers is not the sort of personwho would get madAt a boyFor using some of his words. And thank you for typing up my secret poem the one that usesso many of Mr. Walter Dean Myer’swordsand I like what you put at the top: Inspired by Walter Dean Myers

April 4 That sounds goodto my ears. Now no one will think I just copiedbecause I couldn’t think of my own words. They will know I was inspired by Mr. Walter Dean Myers.

But don’t put it on the board yet, okay?

Is Mr. Walter Dean Myers a live person?

And if he isdo you think he could ever come To our city to our school to our class?

Love That Dog: Pages 49-54

And if he did we should hide my poemwith his words-his it real good- just in case he would get madabout that.

April 4 (continued)

No. No. No. No. No. NO !

I can’t do it.

You should do it. You’re a teacher.

April 9th I don’t agree that Mr. Walter Dean Myers might like to hear from a boy who likes his poems.

I think Mr. Walter Dean Myers would like to hear from a teacherwho uses big wordsand knows how To spellAnd to Type.

April 12th

Love That Dog: Pages 55-59

Dear Mr. Walter Dean Myers, You probably don’t want to hear from mebecause I am only a boy and not a teacher and I don’t use big wordsand you probably won’t even read thisor even if you do read ityou probably are way too busyto answer it Let alone to the thingI am going to ask you and I want you to know that’s okay

April 12th

Love That Dog: Pages 55-59

that’s okaybecause our teacher says writers are very very very very busy trying to write their words

and the phone is ringingand the fax is going and the bills need paying and sometimes they get sick (I hope you are not sick, Mr. Walter Dean Myers)or their family gets sickor their electricity goes off or the car needs fixingor they have to go to the grocery storeor do the laundry

April 12th

Love That Dog: Pages 55-59

Or clean messes. I don’t know how you find the timeto write your wordsif you have to do all that stuff and maybe you should get a helper

So, what I am asking you is this:if you ever get the time to leave your houseand if you feel like visiting a schoolwhere there might be some kidswho like your poemswould you ever maybe think about maybe coming

April 12th

Love That Dog: Pages 55-59

Maybe to our schoolwhich is a clean place with mostly nicepeople in itand I think our teacher Miss. Stretchberry would maybe even make brownies for you because she sometimes makes them for us

I hope I haven’t too much stopped you from doing your Writing of wordsand fixing your carand getting groceries

April 12th

Love That Dog: Pages 55-59

And all that stuff- just to read this letter – which probably is taking you maybe fifteen minutesand in time you could’ve maybe writtena whole new poem or at least the startof one and so I am sorry

For taking up your time and I understand if you can’t come to our clean schooland read some of your poems to usand let us see your face which I bet is a friendly face.

My Name is Jack. Bye, Mr. Walter Dean Myers.

April 12th

Love That Dog: Pages 55-59WHO IS WALTER DEAN MYERS??

On page 10, Name 3 things you learned from the biography. Ask 3 questions you would like to know about Walter Dean Myers that was not answered in the video.