The first time I write my full name Jacqueline Amanda Woodson without anybody's help on a clean white page in my composition notebook, I know if I wanted to I could write anything. Letters becoming words, words gathering meaning, becoming thoughts outside my head becoming sentences written by Jacqueline Amanda Woodson When we can't find my sister, we know she is under the kitchen table, a book in her hand, a glass of milk and a small bowl of peanuts beside her. We know we can call Odella's name out loud, slap the table hard with our hands, dance around it singing 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain' so many times the song makes us sick and the circling makes us dizzy and still my sister will do nothing more than slowly turn the page. Jacqueline Woodson Interviews and Articleswww.jacquelinewoodson.comPoetry Month Page
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Carlo Rodriguez
4/5/2017 09:28:07 am
I think I connect to the second one.
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Julian
4/5/2017 09:28:15 am
I really do connect to the second poem.
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Trey
4/5/2017 09:30:16 am
I think it was the one that was when she was so into the book that she did not know what was going on around her. I can relate to this because once i was reading a book and i fell asleep in the car and my aunt and her friend scared me.
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Gabrielle Strother
4/5/2017 09:31:16 am
I have read a short poem today and it was great. I feel like I can not write poems but I can. Reading her poem was awesome and now I know not to be scared. I liked her poem and I hope someday I can be like her and write poems.
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Miles
4/5/2017 09:32:00 am
I think it was very good and inspiring
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Bryce
4/5/2017 09:36:27 am
That was a great poem.What sparked my interest was how she was exspressing how she can just call her sisters name.
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caedance
4/5/2017 09:37:07 am
I can relate to when she said she turned the page slowly because
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Anna
4/5/2017 09:41:46 am
Today in ¨Spark" we read some poems by Jacqueline Woodson. I love her way of writting. She has an amazing voice when it comes to wriiting poetry. I think I could write like she does some day. I think she is very good writer.
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Gabby
4/19/2017 11:30:23 am
I love ALL her poems
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Andre Mollett
4/19/2017 11:33:54 am
My spring break was awsome. On the easter egg hunt the littlest kid found an egg with five dolloars in it, and that was the only one. I was like ohhhhhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy gooooooooood.
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