Chapter 5: Christensen

This Chapter made me like Christensen even more than before. I love poetry and I think that sometimes (particularly in my h.s. ) it is not taught or focused on enough. I think that poetry helps students think freely and its a very great start to any novel or class discussion. Students can express themselves so freely and that makes good poetry and good discussion. I wish they had this kid of assignment or focused on poetry in high school more.

I can really relate to how the kids get to know each other more. It makes me think back to one assignment in high school that I had to do, where we were suppose to write a poem about our childhood that we normally wouldn't talk about. Most people talked about guilty pleasures and a few brought out deeper feelings of pain and neglect. I guess Chapter 5 trigger this memory because my poem was about how much people told me I was fat and ugly all my life and everybody was shocked at how deep I went and the people who might have made comments before thought about how much what they might have said hurt me. Everybody always saw me as letting peoples comment roll off my back but sometimes everything can't be let go and that day, they realized that. But, my point is that with poetry, whether it be personal or character analysis, can help open up students mind to other people P.O.V.