Poetry, Dog, Death, Confidence
Creech, Sharon. Love That Dog. Joanna Colter Books, 2001, 86 pages. Intermediate, Secondary.
Jack, a young student who thinks he cannot write poetry, comes to love poetry during the course of the school year through an understanding of what famous poems mean to him and writes his own inspired poems. The free verse poems in the form of journal entries come together to give us a thoughtful and reflective narrative, from Jack’s voice, about a boy gaining confidence in his own poetry as he tells us about his dog and its death.
Activities: Write a poem about your favorite pet. If you do not have one, write about the pet you wish you had. Explore free verse and line breaks by working with one of Jack’s earlier poems after we have read the entire story. Write all the words on note cards, and arrange them in one line to form a sentence or group of sentences. Now move them around creating line breaks until the poem feels right. Compare it to the way Jack wrote it in the book.
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