Poem book
A)
When I first started “ Inside Out & Back Again” I was a little confused. It took me off guard that a story was written in a poem. Shortly after, I realized I really liked this format. Like I have mentioned before, I hate reading. This format was awesome, because I got to read the minimal amount, but still understand what was going on. There was only two or three poems I had a hard time understanding, but after a couple times reading I understood. It was also nice that the poems were short because if I didn’t understand them I wouldn’t mind re reading them as many times as I needed to understand versus reading a long chapter book I would keep going because it was too long to re read.
I personally would use this book in a classroom to show kids that poems don’t have to rhyme. I could also use this book to show that not all poems need to be structured to stand-alone. In the book, “Inside Out and Back Again” the poems are each there own, but play off each other to make sense of what’s going on.
B)
So much depends upon
Everything you do
Of every hour,
Minute,
Second of the day
Afraid to fail.
Afraid to let down.
Afraid to be alone.
So watch
Everything you do
Of every hour,
Minute,
Second of the day.
One Reply to “Poem book”
I too realized I really enjoy reading stories in this format as well! I think it is important to show your students the versatility of books because then it opens the door to the student really finding something that they love. Showing students that rhyming is not necessary in poetry I feel is huge, because growing up I thought poems had to rhyme. I also really enjoyed your poem that you put together!!