1. VOICE

2. What is Voice? • It’s what gives writing personality, flavor, style • It’s the writer speaking to the reader • Gives the sense of a person behind the words • It’s the writer revealing who they are

3. Writing for Voice • The use of tone, rhythm, and dialect (Southern, foreign, valley girl, surfer guy) add to the use of voice • What you write about and how you write (mechanics, dialect, etc) help to create the person behind the words • The voice belongs to the writer, but not always

4. SICK“I cannot go to school today,”Said little Peggy Ann McKay.“I have the measles and the mumps.A gash, a rash and purple bumps.My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,I’m going blind in my right eye.My tonsils are as big as rocks,I’ve counted sixteen chicken poxAnd there’s one more—that’s seventeen,And don’t you think my face looks green?My leg is cut, my eyes are blue—It might be instamatic flu.I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,I’m sure that my left leg is broke—My hip hurts when I move my chin,My belly button’s caving in,My back is wrenched, my ankle’s sprained.

5. My ‘pendix pains each time it rains.My nose is clod, my toes are numb,I have a sliver in my thumb.My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,I hardly whisper when I speak. My tongue is filling up my mouth,I think my hair is falling out.My elbow’s bent, my spine ain’t straight,My temperature is one-o-eight.My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,There is a hole inside my ear.I have a hangnail, and my heart is—what?What’s that? What’s that you say?You say today is…Saturday?G’bye, I’m going out to play!” -Shel Silverstein “Sick” from Where the Sidewalk Ends

6. Congratulations!Today is your day.You're off to Great Places!You're off and away!You have brains in your head.You have feet in your shoesYou can steer yourselfany direction you choose.You'll be on your way up!You'll be seeing great sights!You'll join the high flierswho soar to high heights.You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed.You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead.Wherever you fly, you'll be the best of the best.Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.

7. KID, YOU'LL MOVEMOUNTAINS!So...be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Brayor Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,you're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting.So...get on your way!-Dr. Suess Oh the Places You’ll Go

8. Assignment • You’re turn to write!! • Calendar photo • Create a writing for that photo (create a voice for the animal in the picture) • Writing can be… • Poem • Paragraph

9. Use words, dialect, phrasing to get the voice across • Must be APPROPRIATE!