This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness
When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to write poems of apology, they end up liking their poems so much that they decide to put them together into a book. Not only that, but they get the people to whom they apologized to write poems back.In haiku, pantoums, two-part poems, snippets, and...
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When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to write poems of apology, they end up liking their poems so much that they decide to put them together into a book. Not only that, but they get the people to whom they apologized to write poems back.In haiku, pantoums, two-part poems, snippets, and rhymes, Mrs. Merz’s class writes of crushes, overbearing parents, loving and losing pets, and more. Some poets are deeply sorry; some not at all. Some are forgiven; some are not. In each pair of poems a relationship, a connection, is revealed.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780618616800 (0618616802)
Publish date: April 9th 2007
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 48
Edition language: English
At first, I was shocked to see the Bluebonnet committee had nominated two books of poetry this year. Two books of poetry! Then I reconsidered this idea…Why not? If you can have almost half your choices be realistic fiction, why not have two books of poetry? I was moderately interested in the idea be...
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