Dialogue Poems - Writing with Mentor Texts - Poems for Two Voices

Engage students and teach point of view by using poetry. The reading and writing of dialogue poems help students grasp character and theme complexities. With this writing lesson for dialogue poems, students use mentor texts as models for their own writing.

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In this lesson, students first read examples of dialogue poems (hyperlinks are provided to these poems, which are also called "poems for two voices") and then write their own dialogue poems. They start by brainstorming a list of characters that they could use in their poems, and then they journal about the perspectives of each of their chosen characters. They continue going through the writing process, and finally, draft their own dialogue poems. Students use the six traits (ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions) for the peer revision, and the rubric evaluates their use of these traits.

Additionally, this would be a creative, interdisciplinary lesson to help students better understand the varying perspectives of people throughout history (Native American/settler, owner/slave, king/serf, etc.) in a social studies class.

The 14-page resource includes:

• explicit lesson plan with ELA Common Core Anchor Standards
• Venn diagram
• assignment handout
• peer review handout
• proofreading handout
• poetry rubric
• three student sample poems
• teacher notes

If you like this lesson, please see my other Inspired Writing lessons:

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Meaningful and Memorable English Language Arts by © OCBeachTeacher

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