Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone

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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.

What Customers Say About Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone:

Dean's book has several quick and easy lessons that can be used as warm-up exercises. This is a fabulous resource for high school English teachers. Voice is one of the hardest areas to teach in writing classes. I love the literature excerpts she has selected--what a great way to expose kids to the books we want them to read. I use this book in my AP English Literature and Composition class, and highly recommend it.

I really do like this workbook for teaching voice, but I wish it had been developed differently. It is full of good opening activity-type lessons, but I prefer Discovering Voice for lessons. There is a better variety of activities in that workbook.

What it doesn't do is teach students to find their voice, inside themselves. This book teaches the concept of "voice" but it does not teach students to find their voice. The difference is that this book teaches the concepts, gives examples, and teaches students to mimic other writers' selections that are designated as examples of voice. The students do not go into themselves to find their voice; instead they go to rules and examples set by authority figures. There is a better way to do this.

Nancy Dean's book is a welcome addition for those of us who teach AP English Language and want to provide a valuable resource and strategies for passing the AP Exam.

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.