Like this:

As I began reading this book of poetry I wasn’t sure what was going on.  Then I realize this is somewhat like our journal except it is like a more like a response journal.  It seemed like the poems or on going activities were connected to whatever Jack had been studying or had read.

In the beginning of his writings he spoke of wheelbarrows and chickens and also refereed to a poem by Robert Frost.  However, as the poetry journal continued he began to go into depth about other things.  He mentioned the blue car with mud and his dog Yellow, over and over again.  I did not make the connection between the two until closer to the end.  Then I realized that why he kept revisiting these two topics.  Yellow was his beloved dog that was hit by the blue car with mud.

The next major focus of Jack’s was the author Walter Dean Myers.  Jack loved his poems and wanted to meet Mr. Myers.  After encourage by the teacher Jack finally wrote the Mr. Myers and he agreed to come to Jack’s clean school.  I think this should be a goal of teachers, to have students feel confident enough to write to an author.  I also like how Jack came to be proud of his poems and not be afraid of putting his name on his own work.

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