How do you do a dramatic reading of a poem?

I have an English assignment that I need to give a dramatic reading of one of Margaret Atwood's poems to the class. I do not know how to do a dramatic reading and I don't know which one of her poems to choose, hopefully a very short one.

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  • This is an example of a dramatic reading (one that I love, haha) http://youmakemetouchyourhandsforstupidreasons.ytm...

    Just add emphasis and character to your voice.

  • Put your hand on your heart while reading. Looking down. When you do look up at the audience, make sure you got some tears. Use a lot of hand actions.

  • use lots of emotions and try to act the poem will reading

  • My 12 twelve months previous daughter gained first prize for reciting this poem. The Pig In England as quickly as there lived a huge and fantastically clever pig. To surely all of us it replaced into undeniable That Piggy had a great strategies. He worked out sums interior his head, there replaced into no e book he hadn't examine. He knew what made an plane fly, He knew how engines worked and why. He knew all this, yet interior the tip One question drove him around the bend: He in simple terms could not puzzle out What existence replaced into quite all approximately. what replaced into the reason of his start? Why replaced into he placed upon this earth? His significant strategies went around and around. lamentably, no answer might desire to be chanced on. until eventually unexpectedly one wondrous evening. All in a flash he observed the gentle. He jumped up like a ballet dancer And yelled, "with the help of gum, i've got have been given the respond!" "they decide on my 1st Baron Verulam slice with the help of slice "To sell at an surprising fee! "they decide on my delicate juicy chops "to put in each and every of the butcher's shops! "they decide on my beef to make a roast "and that's the area'll fee the main! "they decide on my sausages in strings! "They even decide on my chitterlings! "The butcher's save! The carving knife! "it quite is the reason of my existence!" Such strategies as those at the instant are not designed to offer a pig great piece of strategies. next morning, in comes Farmer Bland, A pail of pigswill in his hand, And piggy with a effective roar, Bashes the farmer to the floor… Now comes the somewhat grizzly bit So permit's not make too lots of it, different than you opt for directly to comprehend that Piggy did eat Farmer Bland, He ate him up from head to toe, Chewing the products valuable and sluggish. It took an hour to realize the feet, because of the fact there replaced into lots to eat, And while he finished, Pig, of path, Felt surely no remorseful approximately. Slowly he scratched his brainy head And with a splash smile he suggested, "I had a extremely useful droop "That he might have me for his lunch. "And so, because of the fact I feared the worst, "i presumed i might extra advantageous eat him first." Roald Dahl

  • lots of emotion.

  • Idk join a reading club!!!!!

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