Love That Dog

by Sharon Creech

Characters:                     

Jack 

Ms.Stretchberry (teacher)

Sky (dog)                              Notes:                                            

                                             anything could be a poem if it had short lines

Mr.Walter Dean Myers          Jack didn't want to write poems because he thought it was for girls.

Dad                                    Sky died by getting hit by a muddy blue car on the road

Settings: school, house ,road, yard,animal shelter 

Poems:

the red wheelbarrow- william carlos williams

stopping by woods on a snowy evening- robert frost                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

the tiger- william blake

dog- vallery worth

the pasture-by robert frost

street music- arnold adoff

the apple-S.C.Rigg

love that boy- walter dean myers

About a boy who makes journal entries for his teacher about poems [which are above] that he says not to write his name about.