Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:10:01 -0700 Subject: 6Traits Digest #19 - 07/07/99 From: "SixTraitsMailring" <6Traits@> To: "SixTraitsMailring" <6Traits@> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Sender: <6Traits@> Precedence: Bulk List-Software: LetterRip Pro 3.0.5 by Fog City Software, Inc. List-Subscribe: List-Digest: List-Unsubscribe: 6Traits Digest #19 - Wednesday, July 7, 1999 Re: 6Traits- Example of Voice by "Kerry Leggett" Re: 6Traits- voice assignment by "Kerry Leggett" website by "Brian" Re: 6Traits- website by "Gray" voice by voice by Re: 6Traits- Voice by 6Traits- voice by Re: 6Traits- Voice #4 - 7/6/99 by "Leanne" Late Voice by Classrooms that Work - writing by "Donald Mattoon" Voice excerpt by Re: 6Traits- Voice by "Anna Liu" Voice by "Ken Hughes" Re: 6Traits- Voice-[Help, Susan] by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Poetry Traits by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Re: 6Traits- website by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Re: 6Traits- Voice by "Joyce Springfield" Voice Assignment by "shelley warren" Re: 6Traits- Voice-[question, Susan] by "Kathy Bader" $ by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Re: 6Traits- $ by "Marianne Roken" Re: 6Traits- Voice-[question, Susan] by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Re: 6Traits- voice/style by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Re: 6Traits- Voice by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> voice by Re: 6Traits- voice/style by 6Traits- voice by "Record" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- Example of Voice From: Kerry Leggett Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 17:38:53 +0800 At I have really enjoyed marking some of my students' work tday, I looked at their efforst in a new 'light'. This is an example of work from one of my 11 year olds. I think this = passage really has voice. The Sad Life of a Numbat. ( a Numbat is a small marsupial, only found in = the S.W. of Australia. They are sadly dying out!) Lonely in this metal cage no one to talk to nowhere to play Wet cold mornings, sometimes rain fed what they feel like and nowhere to play No trees or bushes, the cage is too small they think this is natural but there's nowhere to play Nowhere to roam, nowhere to hide people arrive early each day they stand there and stare but there's nowhere to play I have no family, they've been taken away the zoo keeper's kind but there's nowhere to play My life's just a waste, not really worth living with my habitat gone there is nowhere to play I have plenty of food but I'm still growing thin I feel so alone, I may just give in I shut my eyes and found somewhere to play. I love this, it really gives me the 'voice of nature' in our Australian = bush Kerry L > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- voice assignment From: Kerry Leggett Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 18:04:46 +0800 A Susan Have you posted "lesson 4' yet?, or have I missed it. I know with the = time difference I may be way out. KerryL in Australia.> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: website From: Brian Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 08:24:58 -0400 Does our group have a website? I must have missed the URL if it was posted. Can some one tell me what it is. Brian/2/OH ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- website From: "Gray" Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 08:42:44 -0400 Hi, I think this is what you want. It was in Post#3 from Susan - "While Mickey is getting our web page set up, I've put the voice rubric on an Edlist page. Please go there and print out the standard rubric. In a short while, I will post message #4, exploring the rubric. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/9781/Edlist/rubric2.html Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ" Roberta Gray Grade 2, Geneva, Ohio rgray7@alltel.net gray_ro@mail.neomin.ohio.gov http://www.neomin.ohio.gov/~geneva/spencer/clasroom/mrsgray/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian To: 6 traits <6Traits@> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 8:24 AM Subject: 6Traits- website > Does our group have a website? I must have missed the URL if it was > posted. Can some one tell me what it is. > Brian/2/OH > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: voice From: MBShelow@aol.com Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:30:58 EDT One of my favorite books is called "The Whale's Song" by Dyan Sheldon. It isn't long, but it's voice draws you into it. "Lilly dreamt about whales. In her dreams she saw them, as large as mountains and bluer than the sky. = In her dreams she heard them singing, their voices like the wind. In her dreams they leapt from the water and called her name." Another favorite children's book for me because of it's "voice" is called "The Big Orange Splot." I'm not sure of the author. Mindi (looping to 1st) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: voice From: AnnMath@aol.com Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:02:12 EDT anything from The Color Purpleor Toni Morrison drips with voice. So does = Tom Sawyer. Ann/5/MD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- Voice From: Billiej43@aol.com Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:29:21 EDT I read "A Child Called It" and it's sequel last summer. They are 2 very powerful, moving books. I think I was in tears the whole time I read. Billie/5/ohio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 6Traits- voice From: kingcrow@nauticom.net Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 11:15:44 -0400 Here's my example of voice. GOING TO DIE, Brian thought. Going to die, gonna die, gonna die - his whole brain screamed it in the sudden silence. Gonna die. He wiped his mouth with the back of his arm and held his nose down. The plane went into a glide, a very fast glide that ate altitude, and suddenly there weren't any lakes. All he'd seen since they started flying over the forest was lakes and now they were gone. Gone. Out in front, far away from the horizon, he could see lots of them, off to the right and left = more of them, glittering blue in the late afternoon sun. But he needed one right in front. "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen Denise Shank McQuistion Elementary Grade 6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- Voice #4 - 7/6/99 From: Leanne Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 10:25:46 -0500 Hi Susan...I think I am going to have to sign off the course. I am still having problems with my computer and it seems I am missing quite a few messages. Also, it crashed four times yesterday while I was trying to access the rubric you posted. Unfortunately, I just haven't got time to nurse my computer each time it crashes! I spent most of yesterday with my fingers permanently attached to the keyboard! Anyway, thanks for putting this on...I'm sure the others will get lots out of it. I'll be talking to you on the regular list, no doubt! Have fun... Leanne. P.S. There are three in my group (second grade) so I think they will be fine to carry on without me. I'll e-mail them...and hopefully will get through. Could you please confirm that you got this message? Also, I'm not sure how to go about unsubscribing. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Late Voice From: Sgreen70@aol.com Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:37:58 EDT Sorry this is late! This is from Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, by Judy Blume. No matter = how many times I read it, this book still makes me laugh out loud! We went to Hamburger Heaven for lunch. We sat in a booth. Fudge tossed his balloon around while my mother ordered for him and then for herself. I ordered my own lunch - a hamburger with everything on it and a = chocolate milkshake. Fudge was getting a kiddie special, meaning a = hamburger without the roll, some mashed potatoes, and a side order of green peas. When our lunch was served my mother cut Fudge's hamburger into tiny pieces which he shoved into his mouth with his fingers. Then she handed = him a spoon and told him to eat his mashed potatoes. But instead of eating = them he smeared them on the wall. "See," he said. "I thought you told me he wouldn't behave like that anymore!" I said to my mother. "Fudgie! That's naughty. You stop it right now!" my mother said. But Fudge sang, "Eat it or wear it!" and he dumped the whole dish of peas over his head. I laughed. I couldn't help it. He looked so silly with the peas falling from his hair. And when I eat and laugh at the same time I choke. = So I choked on my pickle and my mother had to whack me on the back, which gave Fudge another chance to spread mashed potatoes on the wall. Sherry/4/AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Classrooms that Work - writing From: "Donald Mattoon" Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:22:00 -0700 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=3D_NextPart_000_0046_01BEC862.8CBE8940 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Regarding the program - Write From the Beginning K-3 Who publishes this program and where can I find more information about =3D this? Thanks for sharing Susan/WA/1st dsmatt@worldnet.att.net ------=3D_NextPart_000_0046_01BEC862.8CBE8940 Content-Type: text/html; charset=3D"iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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------=3D_NextPart_000_0046_01BEC862.8CBE8940-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Voice excerpt From: BeeRog804@aol.com Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:16:31 EDT My excerpt is by one of my favorite authors (who is hopefully recuperating = speedily in Maine). It is the beginning of the book I'm currently = reading, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. "The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. At ten = o'clock on a morning in early June she was sitting in the back seat of her = mother's Dodge Caravan, wearing her blue Red Sox batting practice jersey (the one = with 36 GORDON on the back) and playing with Mona, her doll. At ten thirty she = was lost in the woods. By eleven she was trying not to be terrified, = trying not to let herself think, This is serious, this is very serious. Trying = not to think that sometimes when people got lost in the woods they got = seriously hurt. Sometimes they died." Deb Rogers 1st/Sioux City, IA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- Voice From: Anna Liu Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:04:51 PDT This is from Charlotte's Web by E.B. White Not really sure if this is a good example: "If she went into the house, Wilbur went, too. If she went upstair, = Wilbur would wait at the bottom step until she came down. again. If she took her = doll for a walk in the doll carriage, Wilbur would followed along. Sometimes, on these journeys, Wilbur would get tired, and Fern would pick him up and put him in the carriage alongside the doll. He liked this. = And if he was very tired, he wold close his eyes and go to sleep under the doll's blanket. The doll would close her eyes, too, and Fern would wheel the carriage very slowly and smoothly so as not to wake her infants." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Voice From: "Ken Hughes" (by way of Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com>) Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:24:15 -0700 Hi everyone, I've been reading some wonderful literary selections of voice out on the mailring. As part of my first assignment, I'd like to offer my own! "Today a summer workshop took me to the Kent State campus for the first time. I was a senior in a suburban high school north of Pittsburgh on May 4, 1970 when the Kent tragedy occurred. Up till that day my thoughts had been on graduating and on starting college in the fall. That event was an awakening and served to galvanize my young political mind. Over the years = I have passed the Kent exit on the Ohio turnpike on numerous occasions. Each time found me reflecting back on that day, but I somehow never could find the reason for stopping to visit the campus. Today I walked into the parking lot where the students fell. As I stood next to the spot where Jeffrey Miller died, the now famous photograph of Mary Vecchio's anguished face played in the back of my mind; the horror on her face as she looked up from his lifeless body. I stood there = heartbroken over our loss of innocence that day. Today I experienced a profound emotional catharsis....." Ken/1/OH ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- Voice-[Help, Susan] From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:07:58 -0700 >I didn't get an answer to my question so I will ask again. Will a passage >from Goodnight Moon be an example of Voice? *Any* passage that makes you feel involved with the characters, and want = to continue reading, that incites your emotions - makes you cry, or laugh or just feel good, is an example of voice. These passages can be found in children's writing, adult literature (not meaning porn!), fiction, non-fiction, children's literature, etc. In the late 60s, I was in Okinawa. The road signs were frequently interesting, as the Japanese translated directly, and often said things they didn't really mean. Even those signs were an example of voice. I = was able to make a mental picture of the writer, perhaps sitting at a desk = with a Japanese to English dictionary, struggling to make sense of a language often incomprehensible to non-native speakers. The signs made me laugh, but the mental picture aroused sympathy. We've had some great postings of voice here, from all the afore-mentioned sources. I've made a list of writers I hadn't previously explored, and I hope you have also found your interest aroused in new literature from exerpts posted. If you have, you've been experiencing voice first hand! Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Poetry Traits From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:31:51 -0700 At 11:10 PM 7/6/99 EDT, you wrote: >I definitely think that Goodnight Moon is an excellent example of Voice! = I >love MWB. I do have a question - I was told that using the 6 traits is = not >appropriate for poetry - has anyone else heard that? Eeek! I can't imagine that! It works for anything, as far as I have been able to tell. Poetry allows more latitude with conventions, but then, it has it's own conventions, as well. All of the traits, it seems to *me*, fit poetry. We'll make a special point of including examples of poetry = for all the traits and you can decide for yourself. We've had a couple of examples with voice already. Kerry's example of an 11 year old poem was outstanding. Here's more. These come from a = student I've never met, a 3rd grader, but I fell in love with this child's writing during our Spring Poetry Project this year. Permission was granted to = post on the web, and I don't think the child would mind having them posted here, either. These poems were written to a certain formula and format, and still Jordan's voice comes through. We wrote notes to each other during the project and one of the things Jordan said that struck me as interesting was that he liked to write about unpopular subjects because people paid more attention to what he wrote then. =3D) Depressed by Jordan Depressed seems the color of yellow and gray Like watching the sun go down I can see those colors fading minute after minute I feel the wind pushing against me telling me to go forth I hear my breath going in and out, in and out I tasted nothing I'm depressed I know tomorrow will be better. >>>>>>>> Things To Do If I Was The Boss Of The Galaxy by Jordan Would make everyone eat ice cream for breakfast Would send boys to Mercury School one month every year for = girls Would make wings for me to fly Would make a timemachine Spring and summer would be every = day Would make birthdays every 6 months = Everyone would be rich No one would be poor Girls could do things they can't do today No uniforms. That is final. Would make a car that is computer controlled. Everyone of age 9 could drive. >>>>>>>>>>> Wild Poetry Writing by Jordan Blue feels like a cloud floating in the early morning sky. Blue smells like blueberries growing behind a glass waterfall. Blue sounds like clear drops of spring rain falling as quiet as a flower whisper. Blue seems like a bluejay swooping up and down to feed its young. Blue can rock a baby to sleep as if in a cloud. Blue remains to be my favorite color. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- website From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:34:30 -0700 At 08:24 AM 7/7/99 -0400, you wrote: >Does our group have a website? I must have missed the URL if it was >posted. Can some one tell me what it is. >Brian/2/OH Temporarily it is: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/9781/Edlist/rubric2.html Mickey has the site ready, I just have to ftp files, and I hope to do some of that tonight. I'll let you know the website address when I have it transferred. Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- Voice From: Joyce Springfield Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 21:11:15 GMT A little late but her 'tis... Colder that the winter wind howling its dirge through the Southwest Forest. Colder that the snow blanketing tree, rock, and earth in its silent shroud. Colder that ice that lay on water and hung in shards from branches = and bushes. Colder than these was the smile of Ferahgo the Assassin! Ferahgo was = still young, but as the seasons passed his evil and infamy would grow, and = everybeast would come to fear the name of the blue-eyed weasel. His band searched the wrecked badgers' den, scavenging and snarling over the winter food and few pitiful possessions strewn among the debris. = Smiling pitilessly, Ferahgo stepped over the bodies of the slain badger Urthound and his wife Urthrun. the last two brave creatures to stand = against him. Stealth and deceit, Assassin's trademark. He had tricked the = badgers into thinking this would be a peace conference. Fools! ---From Salamandastron by Brian Jacques _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Voice Assignment From: shelley warren Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Here's the voice of a young girl growing up in the Oklahoma panhandle during the 1920's and the dustbowls. (Great read aloud too.) Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse Here's the way I figure it. My place in the world is at the piano. I'm earning a little money playing, thanks to Arley Wanderdale. He and his Black Mesa Boys have connections in Keyes and Goodwill and Texhoma. And every little crowd is gratefule to hear a rag or two played on the piano by a long-legged, red-haired girl, even when the piano has a few keys soured by dust. Shelley 4th W. Yellowstone, MT _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- Voice-[question, Susan] From: Kathy Bader Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:09:20 -0700 (PDT) I've got a question-- ----If the key question is"Would I keep reading this piece if it were longer?" can we rate voice differently? A piece might catch my interest but not yours. Your statement about "voice" being the feeling that you know them and you've lost a good friend made a lot of sense. I definitely felt that way about Shel Silverstein. I felt that my students had lost a friend that perhaps some of them had not had a chance to met yet. Kathy Bader 3 grade Apex, NC _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: $ From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:54:05 -0700 Another $22 has been received to help pay for the list and the website. This makes the total $61. The cost for the list for one year is $60, so that is paid until next = July. Thanks to Dorothy M. Linda A. Debbie S. Shelley C. Laura E. Debra B. Dottie Y. Valerie D. Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- $ From: Marianne Roken Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 20:01:06 -0400 I don't know how I got on this mailring, but could I get off it? Susan Nixon wrote: > Another $22 has been received to help pay for the list and the website. > This makes the total $61. > The cost for the list for one year is $60, so that is paid until next = July. > > Thanks to Dorothy M. > Linda A. > Debbie S. > Shelley C. > Laura E. > Debra B. > Dottie Y. > Valerie D. > > Susan Nixon > 2nd Grade > Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- Voice-[question, Susan] From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 17:19:58 -0700 >----If the key question is"Would I keep reading this >piece if it were longer?" can we rate voice >differently? Yes, and no. =3D) We can recognize voice, without particularly wanting to read a piece. There are things that I don't like to read, and no amount of voice is = going to interest me in that piece because of the topic, or the language used. An example is that I *never* read Steven King because the first book I = read put me off so badly - not because he isn't a quality writer. I don't like to read horror for pleasure. =3D) However, I still recognized the voice = in the pieces that were posted from one of his books. I'm debating getting that particular book and giving him another chance. =3D) When we evaluate using the rubric, I might give a piece a 3 and you might give it a 4. As long as we are only one number off, we're okay. If I = give it a 2 and you give it a 4, then we have to say to each other, "Why? = Where did you think it was stiff? Where did you think it showed a sense of audience?" etc. When evaluating student writing, we won't all make exactly the same decision every time. It's important to be able to point out what determined the score you gave a piece. You will need to show this to students on other students' writing (not from their own class, and not = with a name on it), and on their own writing. We'll talk about the teaching strategies more on Friday. Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- voice/style From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 17:25:15 -0700 >So, would Dr. Suess' work be an example of style or voice? I think it would be both, though style, by itself, isn't one of the six traits. The Suess books do have a voice. Think about the Cat in the Hat without the wonderful rhyming, though. Not nearly as appealing! Or is that just because we've read them so often it's hard to imagine the stories without the organization he used? Now, organization *is* one of the traits! =3D) >Theo LeSieg WAS Dr. Suess. It's been said that the books published under LeSieg are the ones he thought were not as good. =3D) If your class writes to Dr. Suess at Random House, you will still get an answer. At least, we did two years ago. Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- Voice From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 17:32:35 -0700 >I'm wondering .... would that voice come out if you didn't personally = know >the writer? Yes, perhaps not as strongly for some of us as others. Voice depends on many factors, the majority of which I listed on Monday. However, there is a certain dependence on the reader's background, interests, and sometimes personal knowledge. Reading/Writing is always an interaction between two people, the author and the reader. We've been concentrating on hearing = the writer's voice, but the reader partly determines what the writer's voice is, what it sounds like. There are some voices which are so strong, *anyone* reading the piece = hears the voice. In other cases, the reader's likes and dislikes, for example, how I feel about Steven King, may affect the hearing of the voice. = Whether or not you like poetry might affect how well you hear voice in Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Whether or not you have experience with what a woods might be will also affect your hearing of the voice. This is one reason we need to make available multiple examples of voice = for our students. They won't always hear what we think they will. =3D) Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: voice From: mccorkle@telapex.com Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 22:13:46 -0500 --Boundary_(ID_E9+QMxUdACFsyAvVsqu89Q) Content-type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit From James Herriott's All Creatures Great and Small: "It was a faint growl, a deep rumble, soft but menacing. I turned and saw the dog rising very slowly from her bed. She wasn't getting to her feet in the normal ways of dogs; it was as though she were being lifted up by strings somewhere in the ceiling, the legs straightening almost imperceptibly, the body rigid, every hair bristling. All the time she glared at me unblinkingly and for the first time in my life I realised the meaning of blazing eyes....she thought I was after her pups, of course. Carefully I inched my left hand towards the handle of the door as she still rose, still rumbling deep in her chest." Dot McCorkle 1st/2nd Eupora, MS --Boundary_(ID_E9+QMxUdACFsyAvVsqu89Q) Content-type: text/html; charset=3Dus-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit From James Herriott's All Creatures Great and Small:  "It was a faint growl, a deep rumble, soft  but menacing.  I turned and saw the dog rising very slowly from her bed.  She wasn't getting to her feet in the normal ways of dogs; it was as though she were being = lifted up by strings somewhere in the ceiling, the legs straightening almost = imperceptibly, the body rigid, every hair bristling.  All the time she glared at me unblinkingly and for the first time in my life I realised the meaning of blazing eyes....she thought I was after her pups, of course.  = Carefully I inched my left hand towards the handle of the door as she still rose, still rumbling deep in her chest."
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Eupora, MS --Boundary_(ID_E9+QMxUdACFsyAvVsqu89Q)-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- voice/style From: Geckoed1@aol.com Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:14:57 EDT > It's been said that the books published under LeSieg are the ones he > thought were not as good. =3D) According to his biography, Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel, the ones published under LeSeig were books that he wrote but did not illustrate. Sometimes = he thought that another illustrator's style would be better for the book. Lea/5/CA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 6Traits- voice From: Record Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:31:14 -0400 --=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D_-1280717817=3D=3D_ma=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"us-ascii" I have the understanding that voice is the personality of the characters...that you the reader can relate to that character(s). My second graders would probably choose any of the Arthur books by Marc Brown to explain voice. Arthur truly speaks to his audience. I once asked my second graders why they liked Arthur so much. Many of them said because Arthur has such great understanding for others (empathy). Debbie R. grade 2 record@cyberportal.net --=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D_-1280717817=3D=3D_ma=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=3D"us-ascii" I have the understanding that voice is the personality of the characters...that you the reader can relate to that character(s). My second graders would probably choose any of the Arthur books by Marc Brown to explain voice. Arthur truly speaks to his audience. I once asked my second graders why they liked Arthur so much. Many of them said because Arthur has such great understanding for others (empathy). Debbie R. grade 2 record@cyberportal.net --=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D_-1280717817=3D=3D_ma=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- End of 6Traits Digest