Jack ultimately sends Myers his poem, which is titled “Love That Dog. This Love That Dog Novel Unit is a 37-page common core aligned resource that will: enhance student inferencing skills improve student journal writing and extended responses guide students through poetry analysisYour students will complete: 46 journal responses analyze 8 poems complete a character analysis a story map learn and identify 6. In addition to describing Myers’s voice and laugh as warm, friendly, and the best he’s ever heard, Jack is also thrilled when Myers reveals that he’d be honored if a student borrowed some of his words. Myers does, and the experience is extremely meaningful for Jack. However, with Miss Stretchberry’s encouragement (and her insistence that Myers is kind), Jack eventually works up the courage to write to the poet and invite him to visit Miss Stretchberry’s classroom. Miss Stretchberry reads his poem “Love That Boy” to her class, and Jack adores the poem because the father in the poem calls to his son the exact same way that Jack’s dad calls Jack: “ Hey there, son!” Jack likes the poem so much that he writes his own poem that borrows the language and form of “Love That Boy,” though when Jack discovers that Myers is still alive, he’s distraught-he fears Myers might be mad at him for copying. Walter Dean Myers (1937-2014) is a famous American author and Jack’s favorite poet.
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