After sharing poems that each member brought to our meeting, we tried out some choral poetry using Paul Fleischman's Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices (1988). My favorite poem from the collection is called "Chrysalis Diary." It chronicles the thoughts and sensations of a caterpillar's transformation inside its chrysalis. The students enjoyed the challenge of performing the poems together. It is harder than one might think to keep the pace of a poem going when reading it and overlapping words with another person. Two of the students also added movement to their poetry reading.
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