Chapter 9

Voice, Voice Voice... what an awesome chapter (as always and sorry for being late, I thought I had already entered)
As I work through figuring out how exactly to do my demo I actually felt like a few of the things that she used in this chapter to explain voice could possibly be adapted and used by me...
Voice can be taught but most importantly it must be allowed to come out and be experimented with it must be encouraged. I thought that was essentially the essence of this chapter. I have often gotten extremely excited by my students voice but I don't always tell them what I enjoyed specifically- I must do that.
Knowing that voice comes from who we are was also really important to note because we all sound different... I need to encourage my students to read aloud and listen to the rythm in their writing even more than what we already do.
We are currently working on poetry and so the timing is perfect... poetry is SO rythmical.
I encourage my students to write about things that are important to them, things that matter and so hopefully their voice will continue to grow as we continue to experiment. Voice is power and all my students have that power which is cool.
I appreciated the writer's notebook entry from Barry Lane and it made me realize that its okay if a student needs to adopt a different persona, even if it lasts for awhile. When they do that they are able to be someonelse and that can be very freeing. I am excited to work even more on encouraging my students writing voice. What an excellent book this is!!