Here is an example of a poem in 2 voices. What do you notice about the structure and how it is written?
Dessert Debate
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Why can’t I have dessert?
Just two Oreo cookies?
One?
Yeah!
NO!
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You had dessert yesterday.
No junk food.
What?
How about fruit?
Bananas?
Apples?
Fine – let’s go to bed and have
Sweet
Dreams…
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How about chocolate soymilk?
Chocolate soymilk!
NO!
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Write a 2 (or more) voice poem. Choose a topic that you can explore from different perspectives and can compare and contrast; choose specific voices to tell different sides of the topic. Possible topics: an argument or debate, parent and child disagreeing about high school, 2 friends recalling a moment, different voices within yourself at a moment when you are trying to make a decision, an argument between 2 people.
Voice 1: __________________________
Voice 2: __________________________
Topic:
Brainstorm:
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