8. On pages 26 and 27, Jack uses the words "bark-bark-barking" and "wag-wag-wagging." On page 9, Jack says some of the tiger sounds are still in his ears, like drums "beat-beat-beating." Do you think it would have been better if he had simply said barking, wagging, and beating?
Why do you think he started writing that way?
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Comments (22)
raeann said
at 8:26 pm on Dec 6, 2011
Maybe becasue he wants to make his pomes shorut and may be does not like to write
julian said
at 9:58 am on Dec 7, 2011
maybe to bescribe how he heard or saw it
matthew said
at 9:59 am on Dec 7, 2011
I think Jack is trying to describe what the dogs are doing. So it's like real life when he went to the animal shelter.
isaiah said
at 10:00 am on Dec 7, 2011
no becuse its like a song and it goes with the poetry jack rote and hes tring to make it interesting
skylar said
at 10:00 am on Dec 7, 2011
I think its because it might be barking and wagging irts tail alot or they are all wagging their tail and barking
cassie said
at 10:00 am on Dec 7, 2011
I like the way he says "bark- bark- barking" and all the other ones so I think he should keep it that way. He uses those words so they can stand out.
gia said
at 10:01 am on Dec 7, 2011
I think he started writing that way because he found out that he could make it more entertaining by writing it that way insted of the boring way.
yousef said
at 10:01 am on Dec 7, 2011
What I think is that it whould be better if Jack put "wag-wag-waging or beat-beat-beating", because it kinda grabs the readers atteshen. Plus it has more expreshen instead of bark, wag, or beat I think those words like wag are lame.
arturo said
at 10:01 am on Dec 7, 2011
Maybe he wants to make his poems more exciting! I would probaly do that to my poem.
kierra said
at 10:01 am on Dec 7, 2011
Maybe Jack sorta exspresses himself in bark bark barking and in wag wag wagging . Jack might have started wrighting that way becuase he wanted a shortcut . Or maybe he starting wrighting that way because it helps him .
emilio said
at 10:02 am on Dec 7, 2011
I think beat-beat-beating and wag-wag-waging and bark-bark-barking is better because it sounds more intresting.
wade said
at 10:02 am on Dec 7, 2011
I think he started writing like that to make his poems stand out more or to put expressen in them so poeple will like them and think he is a great poet.
brenda said
at 10:02 am on Dec 7, 2011
I tink that bark, bark, barking, wag, wag waging saunds alot beter than barking or waging, because it adds more feeling to the whriting.
cassy said
at 10:02 am on Dec 7, 2011
I think that he should use bark- bark- barking, wag-wag-wagging, and beat-beat-beating instead of using bark wag and beating, because it sounds boring and your making it more interesting if you use the other words. I also think that he's writing that way, because he starting to get more into poetry so he's using better words.
chloe said
at 10:02 am on Dec 7, 2011
NO i dont think the story would sound right to me . it would just sound boaring and plane . i think that maybe Jack started writing that way so it could sound exciting or baybe it just sounds good to his ears ,chloe
jared said
at 10:03 am on Dec 7, 2011
maybe because he want's to have some anamonapea in his writing
arianna said
at 10:04 am on Dec 7, 2011
I think that Jack should continue to use bark-bark-barking and wag-wag-wagging and beat-beat-beating because, it sounds more interesting and it's creative.
wil said
at 10:04 am on Dec 7, 2011
No, I think he should have done that so, when poeple are reading the poem they like it and they can keep reading.
I think that he starded writting like that because he started liking it and he wanted people to see that he was good at poetry.
arianna said
at 10:06 am on Dec 7, 2011
I think he started writing that way because, he thought it was interesting and cool because, a poetry writer did it and he got inspirerd by that writer.
Mariah said
at 10:06 am on Dec 7, 2011
I think he should use wag-wag-wagging and bark-bark-barking and beat-beat-beating because it makes the words more interesting to listen to.I think he started writting like that because he hear Mr.Robert frost write like that so he started writting the same way .
haille said
at 10:19 am on Dec 7, 2011
I think he started writing like that because he wants to descibe more about whats happening around him.
blossom said
at 10:20 am on Dec 7, 2011
he started saying it like that because now he has expression in his words and it makes it sounds more intresting that way .
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