LOVE THAT DOG

HOW DID THE AUTHOR WRITE THE BOOK???

• In a narrative poem format
• In 1st person point of view (Jack is telling the story)
• Includes lots if figurative language

SETTING

• Miss Stretchberry's class
• Jack's school

CHARACTERS

• Major characters: Jack and Miss Stretchberry
• Minor characters: mom,dad,classmates, Mr. Dean, pet

BLUE CAR

• This story begins with a boy named Jack
• He writes poetry for his teacher
• Jack doesn't want to write poems but he wrote a good one about a blue car

JACH HAS TO WRITE ABOUT A PET

• Jack is not confident about writing poetry
• Jack does not want to write about his dog
• My prediction was that he might not have liked the dog
• My second prediction was that his parents may have given his dog away

A LETTER FOR MR. WALTER DEAN MYER

• Jack wrote a poem
• Then Jack asked his teacher to type up his poem
• His teacher told him that he had to do it for himself
• Jack wants Mr. Walter Dean Myers to come to his class

EXAMPLES OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE BOOK

• Simile: "Some of the tiger's sounds are like drums beat, beat, beating"
• Onamatopoeia: "bark, bark, barking"
• Idiom: "too much time on his hands"
• Personification: "a car needs gas and it's broken down and can't sleep"

MY OPINION

• I would recommend this book to anyone who has a pet
• I liked the book because it was funny in parts and sad in parts
• I liked how the author wrote some of the words in sizes like, SMALL
• I liked the title, "Love That Dog" and the cover too because Jack had a yellow dog