Annabelle Taylor Blog 5: The Crossover

A) For my free verse book I read The Crossover by Alexander Kwame. This book was unlike any I have ever read before and is my favorite book that I have read for this class so far, which I was not expecting. Not only is it written in a unique poetic form, but the story it tells is easy to follow, sweet, and overall relatable. It was very different reading a book in free verse style. The way this book was written you could hear sounds and a very vivid image was painted for you. There were words that would be made bigger, or spaced out, or written diagonally. It changed how these words could be “heard” and it brought emphasis to these parts in the poem. This book was really like listening to rap-genre music. For this reason I think this book could be related to a music unit. Many schools have students go sing in choir or go to a music class once or twice a week. This could be tied into that. This book is also one teachers might suggest for students who are struggling to find a good book to read, but may love basketball or sports in general.

B)

so much depends

upon

 

a crown-shaped

necklace

 

cold to the touch

silver

 

strung across so

softly