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Monday, February 23, 2015

Write a 2-Voice Poem



Here is an example of a poem in 2 voices. What do you notice about the structure and how it is written?

Dessert Debate


Why can’t I have dessert?




Just two Oreo cookies?



One?




Yeah!









NO!



You had dessert yesterday.



No junk food.





What?



How about fruit?



Bananas?
Apples?





Fine – let’s go to bed and have
Sweet
Dreams…












How about chocolate soymilk?






Chocolate soymilk!





NO!




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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