1. Every day we will be reading and exploring “Love That Dog” and other poems by amazing poets!
You will keep a response journal just like the speaker, Jack, in our novel!

2. Love That Dog: Pages 1-2 Jack
Room 105 : Miss Stretchberry September 13
I DON’T WANT TO
BECAUSE BOYS DON’T WRITE POETRY
GIRL’S DO September 21
I TRIED. CAN’T DO IT. BRAINS EMPTY.
Who is Jack?
Who is Miss.
Stretchberry?
What doesn’t Jack want to do? Why? Who is he speaking to?
What’s his tone toward poetry?
This is my puggle, Reese! My husband and I adopted Reese 3 years ago because his owners could not care for him.

3. Love That Dog : Pages 3-5 September 27
I don’t understand the poem about the red wheelbarrow
And the white chickens
And why so much depends on them
If that is the poem
About the red wheelbarrow
And the chickens
Then any words
Can be a poem.
You’ve Just
Got To Make
Short Lines
Is Jack right? Can “any words” put together be a poem?
What did you think about The Red Wheelbarrow poem by William Carlos?

4. Love That Dog : Pages 3-5 October 4 October 10 Do you promise
What do you mean –
Why does so much depend
Upon
A blue car?
You didn’t say before
That I had to tell why.
The wheelbarrow guy
Didn’t tell why.
Do you promise
Not to read it
Out loud?
Do you promise not to put it on the board?
Okay, here it is,
But I don’t like it.
So much depends
Upon
Blue car
Splattered with mud Speeding down the road.

5. Love That DoG: 16 Word Poem
On the first page of your poetry response book, please write a 16 word poem.
Your poem must be 8 lines long with 16 words total.
Your poem must start with
“SO MUCH DEPENDS UPON…”
Check this out!!
A Snow Day
By: Mrs. Ritchie
So much depends
upon
A Fun
Snow day
Mountains of Climbing
Snow
Beside the Burrowed Buses

6. Love That Dog : Pages 6-7 October 17 I don’t want to
Write about that blue car
That had miles to go
before it slept. so many miles to go in such a hurry.
What was up with
the snowy woods poem
you read today?
Why doesn’t the person just
keep going if he’s got
So many miles to go before he sleeps?
And why do I have to tell more
About the blue car
Splattered with mud
Speeding down the road?

7. Love That DoG: Snow Poem
On the second page of your poetry response book, please write a cinquain about winter.
Check this out!!
Winter Wind By: Mrs. Ritchie
Winter Artic, Bitter
Blowing, Stabbing, Icing
I wear a scarf Wind
The first line is one word.
The second line contains two adjectives.
The third line has three words ending in “ing.”
The fourth line has four or more words that make a complete sentence.
The fifth line is one word.

8. Love That Dog : Pages 8-9 October 24
Blue car, blue car, shining bright
In the darkness of the night:
Who could see you speeding by
Like a comet in the sky? I could see you in the night,
Blue car, blue car, shining bright.
I could see you speeding by like a comet in the sky.
I am sorry to say I did not really understand
The tiger tiger burning bright poem
But at least it sounded good
In my ears
Here is the blue car with tiger sounds…
Some of the tiger sounds
Are still in my ears like drums beat-beat-beating

9. Let’s find the end rhyme pattern in “Tyger” by William Blake!
In what distant deeps or skies  Burnt the fire of thine eyes?  On what wings dare he aspire?  What the hand dare seize the fire?  And what shoulder and what art  Could twist the sinews of thy heart?  And when thy heart began to beat,  What dread hand and what dread feet? 
What is the Rhyme scheme?
What other poetic devices did you notice in this poem?

10. Love That DoG: End Rhyme Poem
Here are the requirements of a CLERIHEW! Please write this on page three of your response book!
They are four lines long.
The first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other.
The first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.
A clerihew can be humorous or serious! Your choice!
Must Follow…
AA BB
Format!

11. Garfield A Garfield the cat On his rear he sat. B
Eating lasagna galore
While Ruining the decor. A B

12. Love That Dog : Pages 10-16 October 31 November 6 Yes You can put
The two blue-car poems
On the board But only if you don’t put
My name
On them.
They look nice
Typed up like that
On blue paper
On a yellow board
(but still don’t tell anyone who wrote them, okay?)
(And what does anonymous mean?
Is it good?)

13. Love That Dog : Pages 10-16 November 15th November 9
Yes, I used to have a pet.
I don’t want to write about it.
You’re going to ask me
Why not?
Right?
I don’t have any pets
So I can’t write about one
And especially
I can’t write
A POEM
About one.
Lets INFER…
Why might Jack not want to talk about a pet he used to have?

14. Love That Dog : Pages 10-16 November 29 November 22
I liked those
Small poems
We read today.
When They’re small
Like that you can read
A whole bunch in a short time
And then in your head are all the pictures
Of all the small things
From all the small poems.
Can’t I make up a pet-
A different one?
Like a tiger?
Or a hamster?
A goldfish?
Turtle?
Snail?
Worm?
Flea?

15. And how he’d sometimes
Chomp at a fly
And then sleep
In his loose skin
Just like that poet,
Miss Valerie Worth,
Says,
In her small
Dog poem.
I liked how the kitten leaped
In the cat poem
And how you could see
The long head of the horse in the horse poem
And I especially liked the dog
In the dog poem
Because that’s just how
My yellow dog
Used to lie down,
With his tongue all limp
And his chin
Between his paws

16. Love That Dog: Valerie Worth Inspired Poem
Please write on page four of your response journal
Write a poem describing an animal, person, plant, insect… it has to be living.
Your poem must be at least 6-8 lines long!
Your poem must also include at least 5 verbs!
Having trouble?
Picture yourself watching an animal at the zoo!
What is the animal? What is it doing?
Giraffe By Irene Latham

17. December 4th December 13th Why do you want To type up what I wrote
About reading
The small poems?
It’s not a poem?
Is it?
I guess you can put it on the board
If you want to
But don’t put my name on it
In case other people think
It’s not a poem.
I guess it does look like a poem
When you see it typed up like that
But, I think maybe
It would look better if there was more space
Between the lines
Like how I wrote it
The first time.
And I likes the picture of the yellow dog
you put beside it.
But that’s not how
My yellow dog
Looked.

18. Love That Dog : Pages 20-21 January 10 And you said that
Mr. Robert Frost
Who wrote about the pasture
Was also the one who wrote about
Those snowy woods
And the miles to go before he sleeps –
Well!
I really really really
Did NOT get the pasture poem
You read today.
I mean:
Somebody’s going out to the pasture
To clean the spring
And to get
The little tottery calf
While he’s out there
And he isn’t going
To be gone long
And he wants YOU
(Who is YOU?)
To come too.
I mean REALLY.
I think Mr. Robert Frost has a little
Too much time on his hands!

19. Love That Dog: Robert Frost Inspired Poem
Please write on page 5 of your response journal.
Write a poem inviting someone to join you doing or experiencing something that you especially enjoy.
It can be something you like to do outdoors or indoors. It can be a special place that you like to visit or an activity that you enjoy.
Think about the things that make the place or activity special.
Use descriptive words in your poem to encourage the reader to accept your invitation.
Help him or her to see, hear, and feel the wonderful experience that is so special to you.
Free Verse
A poem that does not have any Rhyme.