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This Is Just to Say by Joyce Sidman5/31/2023 ![]() A few follow very closely to the format of the original poem while many simply take the idea of apology and run with it. It is a really interesting collection of poems. Some "students" also wrote back on behalf of non-writing recipients, like the class pet or a school statue. ![]() ![]() In the second section, they shared those poems with the intended recipient and asked them to write a poem back in response. ![]() In the first section, an imaginary class of students shares their own apology poems (some false, some not) inspired by William Carlos Williams. This is Just to Say: poems of apology and forgiveness (2007) by Joyce Sidman and illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski. (H/T Sally Murphy, Laura Salas, Margaret Simon, Reading to the Core, and others.) Also inspired by William Carlos Williams' famous This is Just to Say poem, this collection of poems has two sections. ![]()
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