Fifth Graders Experiment with Voice--2-22-07

Fifth-grade Language Arts students tried their hands at writing some poems today, focusing on the voice they used in the poem. After reading poems with different speakers, some students chose to write poems as if talking to an object (apostrophe). One child wrote to her sock. Others chose to use a lyrical voice, including first-person perspective in their poems, for example, pretending to be in a basketball game. Some used dramatic voice, pretending to be an object or item, such as a leaf talking to its visitors under the tree or a pencil, ready to write. Still other students used narrative voice and told a story through their poems. All enjoyed hearing each other share writing samples, which will be edited and placed into each student's poetry booklet. Keep on writing!