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  Module 1: School Poetry Get Me Out of this Book: Rules & Tools for Being Brave Ivana Marmolejo Bibliography  Dakos, Kalli, Deborah Cholette, and Sara Infante. Get Me out of This Book: Rules & Tools for Being Brave . New York: Holiday House, 2019. ISBN: 9780823438624. Summary Get me out of this Book: Rules & Tools for Being Brave is about a bookmark named Max who tells about his scary encounters in different books. He takes on a trainer who shows him the “RULES AND TOOLS for looking right at SCARY.” (Dakos, Cholette, and Infante 2019). He learns that he needs to take deep breaths, have a plan, and think of only good things to survive the scary situations in which he finds himself. (Dakos, Cholette, and Infante 2019). The book is a single poem with many stanzas, and the entire book is written using personification. Max, the bookmark, narrates the story.  Analysis This book can be enjoyed by all age groups. It especially appeals to children because the pages...

Module 1: African American Poetry Booked Ivana Marmolejo Bibliography Alexander, Kwame. Booked . New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. ISBN: 9780544570986. Summary Booked is a verse novel that is brilliantly written by Kwame Alexander. It focuses on a main character named Nick Hall, a thirteen-year-old, eighth-grade student at Langston Hughes Middle School of the Arts. (Alexander 2016). It details his life through experiences of love, school, soccer, parents, bullying, and self-respect. Many of the poems rhyme and can cover several pages while others may be a single stanza composed of four short lines. There are several different types of poems. Some poems are written like a narrative, some are free verse, some are conversational, and even a few acrostic poems are featured. Because the style of poetry changes, it is easy to keep the reader engaged. Another engaging aspect of the book is that the placement of the words vary poem to poem. An extra feature readers will enjoy are...

Module 1: Hopkins Collection I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage Ivana Marmolejo Bibliography  Hopkins, Lee Bennett, Kwame Alexander, Jorge Argueta, Joseph Bruchac, Nick Bruel, Margarita Engle, Douglas Florian, et al. I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage . New York: Lee & Low Books Inc., 2019. ISBN: 9781620143117 Summary   I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage is an anthology of poems compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins in 2019. The book includes fifteen poems written by fourteen authors and illustrations by sixteen artists. Two of the poems were written by Janet S. Wong. The anthology's theme focuses on the diverse backgrounds of all fourteen authors and their experiences of what it was like growing up in their culturally-rich environments. At the conclusion of the last poem, there is a section that allows readers to learn more about the authors and artists. A table of contents and page numbers would have been helpful to reference the poems.  Analysis...