In December, I had the privilege of meeting up with fellow slice of life blogger, Elsie. She brought me this wonderful book as a gift. Yesterday, I finally got to read it aloud to my students. We are in the middle of our poetry unit and it fit perfectly. We had just read the poem, “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams in our read aloud book, Hate That Cat.
Today, I read a section from the book, where the author, Gail Carson Levine gives advice on how to write such a false apology poem. She is incredibly funny in giving specific directions on that type of attitude needed! I had my students come up with their own false apology poems and I wanted to share it with the slice of life writing community. I just love the connections we make through this writing community. Thank you again Elsie for the book.
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I just read every poem aloud to my students. Oh my word, I want that book. Those poems are fantastic. Your students are so good!
Umm… I apologize I meant I read every poem aloud to my roommate, I must have been thinking about my students when I wrote that!
You are so welcome Jee Young! Your students’ poems are hilarious. Thanks for sharing!
It is so awesome that you met up with L.C. ! I’m in envy. I love the book she gave you and how your students are using it as a mentor text. XO
Love this! Thanks for sharing…I will have to run out and get this book!
Yay! I’m doing this with my fourth graders. I wrote two of my own false apology poems, and almost posted them today! How funny! I’ll probably post them next week, since I decided to dedicate today’s post to Challenger memories.
Oh, what fun! Thank you for sharing how Elsie’s gift brought smiles and poetry to your classroom.
This is just to say…
that I have taken your idea
and your students’ poems.
They were just so expressively
poetic, I couldn’t resist
sharing…
What a wonderful mentor text! Congrats to your poets . . . and this is just to say that I encourage them to write more, more, more!
What fun to see the poems your students wrote from their writer’s notebooks! Thanks for sharing!
Love the way you use thus poem as a mentor text! Thanks for sharing it and the students’ responses of their poems too! It’s obvious through their poems that they connected with the concept!
Another great idea! Your students did a great job!