This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0618616802 ISBN13: 9780618616800 Release Date: April 2007 Publisher: Clarion Books Length: 48 Pages Weight: 0.90 lbs. Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.8" x 9.5" Age Range: 10 to 12 years Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7 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.