Poetry

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 * Zachary Eagle, Pirates, David Harrison, pp 19
 * I like this book because I enjoy how pirates talk. I like how the author describied the poem of Blackbeard. I also like how the author explained how Blackbeared was unbeatable at his brutal game.
 * My conection is I have seen a movie that has to do withe pirates .pirates of the caribian
 * 3 out of 5 star with next book post


 * Zachary eagle, tap Dancing on the roof, Linda sue park, 26 pp.
 * My favorite poem was November thursday. because that is exactly how my brother wakes up
 * I have read a book like this one pirates
 * 3 out of 5

Nice job Brandon!
 * Brandon Baker, __Pizza,Pigs&Poetry,__Jack Prelutsky,pp 191.
 * I like this book becuase Jack wrote how he writes his poems.He also likes to put food on incects. When he thinks of an idea he writes it in a poem.It tells you how to write different poems.
 * T-T-This book reminded me of Pirates because it is a poetry book.
 * 4 out of 5 stars.

__﻿____﻿__ Great job! I can't wait to read this book.
 * AJPando, __Locomotion__, Jacqueline Woodson, pp 100.
 * My favorite poems are Epitaph poem. I like it because he wrote it for his mama that died. and I also like the Dear God poem, because he writes a letter to God about the Bible.
 * My connection to the book is Lonnie has a sister and I also have a sister and I think about God too.
 * 5 out of 5 stars.


 * == Grace Stanfield, Home of the brave, 267 pp. ==
 * == My favorite part is when Kek went to the groshry store. I Iike it when he touches the green ==

Well, that's besides the point.
What a mature connection, Grace! Wow! Please add the author Please add the author!
 * == Any way, my connection with this book is that I also feel like I get too much. ==
 * == 4 outa' 5 stars. you gotta' read it ==
 * Caity Jenkins home of the brave p.267
 * my favorite part was when he was moving. Kek was upset because he wants to go home to africa. he is moving to America and he lived in africa.
 * my connection is that it reminded me of when i moved.
 * 5 out of 5 stars

> •my favorite poem in the book is lunch becausei like food and it said PIZZA AN I LIKE PIZZA ! > •my conection I wrote a story about pizza ! and a bunch of other stuff and my story was about super pizza and his side kick apple > •I give this book 4 out of 5 > pirates, AUTHOR??? p 48 > •My favorite part is when or my favorite poem is blackbeard because he has one big beard and hes relly MEAN ! > •My conection is i have a grandpa with a really black beard just not a lot > •I give this book 5 out of 5 Make sure your favorite part has 3-5 sentences. Add another book of 50 pages or more. Let me know when you do this. What a great connection! My favorite one was when it says my brother flushed my homework down yhe toilet when I wasn't looking.I can imangine that.
 * Maddie Pewitt, Home of the brave, Katherine Applegate pp267
 * My favorite part of this book was when Kek was excited to go to school and meet new people. I felt happy to know he would meet new people.
 * My connection was when Kek cared about a cow that was in the street so much he yelled STOP to his cousin who was driving.
 * My favorite quote was when Kek's teacher said  Kek you may not understand evreything a conversation is about but that is ok because we may not understand you.
 * I give it 5 out of 5 stars because I added more information then what was needed.
 * •Jaden Wilson,tap dancing on the roof, AUTHOR?? p42
 * Trenton kelly,Home of the brave,Katherine Applegate,pp,267
 * My favorite part is when Kek came to USA from Africa.He came to move with his mom and brother.He got a lot of friendships in the USA.
 * My conection is at my mom friend went to Africa from USA.
 * I give this book 4 out of 5 star.
 * Marshall Knifley,Where the side walk ends,Shel Silvertein,pgs166.
 * My favoret part is when the man has so much hair that he uses his hair for cloes. It is funny beacase I wish I could have hair for clothes.I liked that he could use his hair for a swing.
 * My conection is when the girl will not take out the trash to save her life.I understand beacase I don't like to take out the trash ether.
 * I give this book 5 out of 5 stars
 * Caity Jenkins, A Light in the Attic, Shel Silvertien, p.169
 * My favorite poem was Wavy Hair because he thought he had wavy hair but he didn’t. He didn’t like it so he shaved it off. He figured out he had a wavy head.
 * My connection is my friend having wavy hair.
 * I will give this book a 5 out of 5
 * McKenna,Where the sidewalk ends,Shel Silverstein,pp.166.
 * My favorite poem is Ickle me,Pickle me Tickle me too.mI love how the shoe with the wings conneced to the shoe ,with Ickle me,Pickle me,Tickle me too in the shoe is drawn.Also I love how the poem decripes the chracters.I mean if you can what was happening without a picture,I picture Ickle me, Pickle me,Tickle me too as some green dwarfs with raggy and lose clothes.
 * My connection is when I was a girl I took one shoe of mine and got a dool of my brothers,stuck the dool in my shoe and tossed in in the air.
 * 5 stars
 * Maddie, tap dancing on the roof by Linda Sue Park pages 40.
 * My favorite poem was long division because it was like actual long division. It was a very weird way of trying to find another way to describe division. It was described by saying loooooooooong division.
 * My connection was to bed time snack because all those things i wish i could have or do at night.it reminded me of when i got to stay up and do those things on thanksgiving night.
 * i give them all 5 out of stars.
 * Aubrey__,Kids Pick The FUNNIEST__ Poems__,Poems that make kids laugh__ By:Bruce Lansky115pp
 * My favorite poem is Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out.It is about Sarah not taking the Garbage out. After Days,mounths and years she wanted to take the garbage out but it was to late it was across the state.She asked her friends if they wanted to come ofer because it was filling there house.
 * My connection was to Daydream because I'd like to do all the things that he would like to do ,Like to drill in my dentist's tooth and give a nurse a shot.I'd like to make my parents eat the food I rather not and make the teachers take real hard test.
 * I give this book 5out of 5stars.
 * Aubrey,__Night Lights and Pillow Fights__ By: Guy Gilchrist 134pp
 * My favorite poem is A PORCUPINEAND A BUNNY IN LOVE.It goes like this Kiss me a kiss Fullof passion and thrills! OUCH!! OUCH!! OUCH!! OUCH!! OUCH!! OUCH!! Sorry honey,pardon my quills.This is my favorite poem because he does not care if the quills hurst the girl.
 * My connection was to NIGHT LIGHTS & PILLOW FIGHTS.It is about someone going to bed and that is what I do when I go to bed. My mom says good night to me like it did in the poem.
 * I give this book 5 out of 5 stars
 * zack, shel silverstein, a light in the attic, pp 167
 * my favorite poem was spelling bee i got stung by a bee i won't tell you where i got stung by a bee i was just lying there it tattod a message i can't let you see that spells out hello you've been stung by a bee. that is my favorite poem i thought it was funny.
 * my connection is the my guitar poem. my brother would like that guitar.
 * 5 out of 5
 * zack,runny babbit, shel silverstein,90pp
 * my favorite poem was the and baid problem. runny babbit tut cail, so goctor doose came by.he put a and baid on the cut runny ceban to bry. goc doose said that hidnt durt i put it on sentle and goft. im thiniking bout when your going to pull it off. i thought that was funny.
 * my connetion is a light inthe attic. it has poems just like this. theyre also really funny. When I read the funny poems in this book, it made me think of the poems I laughed at in the book A Light in the Attic.
 * 5 out of 5
 * AJ Pando, pizza,pigs, and poetry, by Jack Prelutsky, pp 191.
 * My favorite poem was wolf is at the laundromat. I like it because at the end it said it is a wash-and-wear wolf. I also liked it because you don't see a wolf at the laundromat.
 * My connection is he wrote about unordenery stuff and once I wrote about something weard. When I read the poem he wrote about unordinary stuff, it made me think about the time I wrote about something weird happening,
 * 5 out of 5
 * Savanah,Reveng Of The Lunch Ladies,Kenn nesbitt,p.p.71
 * My favorite poem was All my great excuses. Because all those excuses aer really funny.
 * My connection is he wrote about funny stuff. I could never find a poetry book like this one.I've never seen anybody write poems like this. How do you connect to him writing about funny stuff? Wha﻿t did this book make you think about?
 * 5 out of 5 stars
 * AJ Pando,__Home of the brave__,Kathrine Applegate,pp251
 * My favorite part was when Kek put the dishes in the washing machine. He had to buy new ones with money or what he calls green paper.He also got candy for his friends birthday.
 * my connection is Kek broke the dishes and once I broke some dishes. When I read about Kek breaking the dishes it reminded of the time I broke some dishes.
 * 5 out of 5 stars
 * ﻿Bailey Green The Best Poems Ever ,pp.74,Edic S.
 * My faorite poem is one about a tiger. It was my favorite because I am really afrade of tigers.
 * I connected to a poem that seas I havent eaten the plums i connected to that poem because I usly eat plumes when I get home from school I eat a plum my mom hasent been buying them eany more.
 * 3 OUT OF 5 STARS
 * Sarah Gillespie, __Pezza Pigs And Portry__ ,pp.178,Jake
 * My favorite part is when he rote about the teddy bear. That is my favorite part because I like when it said I was repping his eyes out and it said I thout his hair whoud grow back.
 * My connection is I have cut my teddy bears hair before.
 * 3 out of 5 stars
 * Ellyana Norton, A Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstien, 169pp
 * My favorite poem of the entire book is called SOMETHINGS MISSIING.  I will show you what it said : I remember putting on my socks, I remember putting on my shoes. I remember putting on my tie That was painted In beautiful purples and blues. I remember I put on my coat ,To look perfectly grand at the dance,Yet I feel there is something I may have forgot - What is it ? What is it ? ... : and he forgot to PUT ON his underwear and pants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 * My connection is how I forgot my shoes onthe way to McDONALD'S.
 * # of stars?


 * Sarah Gillespie, pp.176,__Where The Sidwalk Ends__ Shel Silversitien
 * My favorite part is the pancake pome because if she really got a pancake from the meddil that whoud be bad. That would be bad because the stack of pancake was really tall and it would fall.
 * My connection is my techer last yere read us a pome that I read agen in that book.It ws called band-add.
 * 4 out of 5 stars


 * Caden,If Kids Ruled the School, Bruce Lansky, 75pp,
 * my favorite part was when the poem was about get out of bed"get out of bed silly head"but mom my head and my throat hurts". The kid didn't want to go to school. I like how it rhymed and how detailed and dramatic the kid was.
 * When I read this poem, it made me think about when I tell my mom I am sick but she makes all these excuses about why I have to go to school.
 * 5 stars.
 * Maddie, Where the sidewalks ends,shel silverston, p176
 * My favorite poem was when the young boy was holding a 2 pencil and the eraser wrong side up, complaining about how the people who made it are goober heads. That need to learn how to make a pencil that writes.
 * My connection was how the author wrote such descriptive poems, that reminded me of when my mom said I had neat hand writing.
 * 4 out of 5.

Complete this post and let me know. more information for your favorite part, finish your connection and you rating.

3 stars.
 * Caden,light in the attic,shell silverston,197
 * my favorite poem was the rockaby baby and it says rockaby baby and the baby was in the tree and the baby was just sucking on the pasfire and looking up at the sun with no worries.
 * my connection was when i WAS up on a tree and just playing with my freinds and pretinding i was in a baby carrage and and singing and i fell asleep later on.


 * Marshall,A Light In The Attic,Shel Silverstean,168p.p
 * My favoret part is whene the littel girl try's to make a milkshake but all she does is get a big cow and starts to shake the deth out of the thing!!!
 * My connection is tencly to the wrighter.I like poetry alot beacaese inperates me to do cooler thinges every day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">5 out of 5 stars!!!!!!!!!!


 * <span style="color: #8e00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">mikah stabeno, pizza, pigs,and poetry,jack.p,pp192
 * <span style="color: #8e00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">My favorite part is when he does his poem rat for lunch.I like this part because he made it rhyme and he had a creative imagination.
 * <span style="color: #8e00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">this story made me think about when i had to eat these beans and they tasted so nasty it made me think of that because it said rat for lunch and i thought that would taste really bad.
 * <span style="color: #8e00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">5 out of 5 stars.


 * <span style="color: #25a253; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Ellyana Norton, MY DOG MAY BE A GENIUS, Jack Prewtsky, 153pp
 * <span style="color: #25a253; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">My favorite poem in the book was I Began to Blow a Bubble. And he blew a bubble so big that he came up off the ground!!! Then it says......I hope and hope with all my heart my bubble doesn't pop. I look at the picture and he's like up 20,000,000 feet high!
 * <span style="color: #25a253; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">My connection is that I have blowen a lot of bubbles, but not one huge enough to let me fly.
 * <span style="color: #25a253; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">5 out of 5 stars!!! Goodbye!


 * = Jaden Wilson,178,Pizza Pigs & Poetry =
 * my favorite part is well favorite story is the boogy man because he explains how his mom use to tell LIES like my mom about the BOOGYMAN wich at first the auther beleaved his mom.Then one time he thought what ever i do the boogy mans going to get me so he didn't beleve it anymore.so one time he yelled bloody murdure acting like the boogman had him.
 * my conection is i once got told about the killer mom well thats what i think wich i never beleved in WELL MAYBE FOR 2 YEARS.
 * = number of stars 5 out of 5 =

<span style="color: #0030ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> He was hitting his teddy bear on the table and crying.
 * <span style="color: #0030ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">SAVANAH,pizza pigs and poetry,JACK PRELUTSKY,182p.p.
 * <span style="color: #0030ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">My favorite part is when he was talking about a little boy at a restaurant he went to the same one and he saw him get angry.
 * <span style="color: #0030ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">My favorite part is when he was talking about a little boy at a restaurant he went to the same one and he saw him get angry.
 * <span style="color: #0030ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">My connection is i always did that if i got angry.But i then would say sorry to it.I would also hug it.
 * <span style="color: #0030ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">5 OUT OF 5 STARS


 * McKenna, Where I live, Eileen Spinelli, 105 pp.
 * My favorite part is when Diana goes to The Poetry Workshop. The reason she gets to The Poetry Workshop is because she won this contest . The famous city poet was teaching the poetry school, and she said bring your notebook where ever you go, be brave, be messy, open your eyes and open your heart. Diana's poem: Sun,you are like yellow silk cut in a circle stitched against the sky. One thread dangles in the breeze, says, "Come climb up into my golden light. be happy.
 * My connection to Diana going to The Poetry Workshop is going to school, and learning about poetry.
 * 5 stars