Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone | 
 enlarge | Author: Nancy Dean
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing
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Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 0929895355
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.0420712
EAN: 9780929895352
ASIN: 0929895355
Publication Date: April 2000
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How does Toni Morrison make bad times seem sweet? How can Shakespeare make a character say one thing and mean another? Help your students understand how writers control voice so they can express a voice of their own. Voice Lessons procides 100 historically and culturally diverse passages from world literature. Each sharply focused exaples targets a specific component of voice, presenting it in a short manageable exercise that functions well as a class opener. Activity pages may be reproduced. The activities also serve as writing promprs, with space on the reproducible pages for students to respond to discussion suggestions for teachers. Use Voice Lessons with any high school curriculum. Prepare your high school students for Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and other examinations tha tdemand an understanding of the subtle elements that comprise an author's unique voice: diction, detail, imagery, syntax, and tone.
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Voice Lessons October 11, 2008
I must admit that I was reticent to purchase this item because most books designed to help students become better writers have unnecessary or unusable activities. _Voice Lessons_, however, is different: organized by technique (diction, imagery, detail, etc.), each lesson begins with a passage from prose or poetry, moves into analytical questions, and finishes with applied practice. From there, it's easier for students to incorporate these techniques in their writing.
I teach grades 10-12 (including AP Language), and _Voice Lessons_ has helped all students in these grade levels improve their writing. They seemed to enjoy the activities as well.
Just what I was hoping for April 27, 2008
I just got this Voice Lessons book, and, as I hoped, it is jam packed with reproducibles! Each lesson could take one class period or less, and there is a lot of variety. I was glad it wasn't primarily a book about theory. This is a take it to the photocopier and you have a lesson for the day book.
BIG help with pre-AP classes November 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I teach a pre-AP class, and one of the major skills the kids practice is learning to recognize an author's tone through diction, syntax, etc. This book is a collection of excellent warm-up exercises that develop close reading and writing skills. I would highly recommend it; my copy is, in fact, loaned out at the moment to one of my colleagues!
Excellent resource for teaching voice January 6, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This title was recommended to me by our AP English teacher and she was right. A few simple lessons from each section and my high school students had a much better understanding of voice.
Great book for HS English teachers! June 14, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Voice is perhaps the hardest of the 6 traits to teach. With my sophomore core English students, I would do 1 voice lesson each week for their warm up and it was amazing how much more accessible that vague idea of "voice" came to both myself and my students over the school year. The whole English department at my school uses Voice Lessons...9th grade teachers do a certain number, 10th grade, etc. By the time a student graduates, they will have done all the voice lessons. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any English teacher or teacher who teaches writing (and which teachers don't?!).
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