American Voices: Listening to Fiction, Poetry, and Prose

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.02.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Strategies
  5. Introducing Voice through Picture Books
  6. Voice Chart Example
  7. Cognitive Content Dictionary Example
  8. Recognizing Voice in Poetry
  9. Voice Expression Activity I: Writing from Another Point of View
  10. Voice Expression Activity II: Using Multimedia to Elicit Voice
  11. Poetry Circles
  12. Personal Narrative
  13. Resources
  14. Notes

Finding One's Voice

K. Gothie

Published September 2008

Tools for this Unit:

Notes

1. Elbow, Peter, ed. Landmark essays on voice and writing. (Mahwah, NJ: Hermagoras Press, 1994): 157.

2. Twain, Mark. The Adventures of huckleberry finn (New York: Penguin Classics, 1985): 10.

3. Elbow, Peter, ed. Landmark essays on voice and writing. (Mahwah, NJ: Hermagoras Press, 1994): 157.

4. Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. http://www.nwrel.org/index.php (accessed July 9, 2008)

5. Northwest Regional Educational. "6+1 Traits of Writing." http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/pdfRubrics/6plus1traits.PDF (accessed July 9, 2008)

6. Elbow, Peter, ed. Landmark essays on voice and writing. (Mahwah, NJ: Hermagoras Press, 1994): 157.

7. Frost, Robert. Collected poems, prose, and plays (New York : Library of America, 1995): 677.

8. Elbow, Peter, ed. Landmark essays on voice and writing. (Mahwah, NJ: Hermagoras Press, 1994): xxii.

9. New Mexico Public Education Department. "New Mexico Curriculum Framework for Language Arts." (2000). http://www.ped.state.nm.us/nmStandards.html (accessed July 15, 2008).

10. Polacco, Patricia. "Read Aloud Tips." http://www.uiowa.edu/~humiowa/chickensunday4.html (accessed July 11, 2008).

11. Vygotsky, L.S. Mind and society: The development of higher psychological processes.(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978): 86.

12. Ibid, p. 86

13. Renaissance Learning. http://www.renlearn.com (accessed on July 12, 2008).

14. Indrisano, Roselmina., and Jean Paratore. Learning to write, writing to learn: theory and research in practice. (DE: International Reading Association, 2005)

15. Bunting, Eve, and David Diaz. Smoky night. (New York:Voyager Books-Harcourt, Inc., 1994)

16. A Venn diagram pocket chart is an organizer to help students compare and contrast things. It has slots for words to be placed or sentence strips. It is a nice visual for kids and words and sentences can easily be moved and rearranged. They can be ordered through a company called School Specialty.

17. Ringgold, Faith. Tar beach. (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1991).

18. Brechtel, Marcia Bringing it all together: language and literacy in the multilingual classroom. (New Jersey: DominiePress-Pearson Learning Group, 2001): 174.

19. Brechtel, Marcia Bringing it all together: language and literacy in the multilingual classroom. (New Jersey: DominiePress-Pearson Learning Group, 2001): 177.

20. Langston Hughes. http://www.poets.org (accessed July 14, 2008).

21. Martinez, Victor. Parrot in the oven: mi vida. (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 1996): 7.

22. Martinez, Victor. Parrot in the Oven: mi vida. (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 1996): 18.

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