TY  - GEN
AU  - Sidman, Joyce
TI  - This is just to say: poems of apology and forgiveness
SN  - 9780544105072
CY  - Boston
KW  - Apologizing
KW  - Children's Literature
KW  - Poetry, Poems, Verses or Theater
KW  - Children's poetry
KW  - Forgiveness
KW  - Feelings and Emotions
N2  - 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
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