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Explore artists' voices through self-portraits and poetry analysis. Discuss personality traits and techniques used in their art to understand their unique identities.
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With your table group, discuss: • What kind of person painted these self-portraits? How do you know that? • How would she describe herself? What do you see that makes you think so? • R/W 9: Voice and Identity Practice • Make a T-square. In the left square titled “Frida Kahlo”, record at least three attributes/personality traits of the artist with evidence/techniques supporting your ideas.
With your elbow partner, discuss • What kind of person created this art? • How would she describe herself? What do you see that makes you think so? • In the right part of the chart, title it “Jeramay”and record at least three attributes of the artist with evidence/technique supporting your ideas.
GUIDING QUESTIONS What is “voice” in writing?How and why do we show our voices in writing?
Good writing has a voice. It talks to you with a real recognizable imprint of the author on it.
Checking on Voice • Listen as you watch the shortbiography of Frida Kahlo. You will be asked questions after.
IOn t-chart and in a different color pen, write three facts you learned about Frida Kahlo that support your conclusions.
On the next page in the same section, make another T-chart, for Tracy and Alice.
TI looked down at the terribly small piece of chicken on my plate--somehow there just didn’t seem to be any justice--I always received the smallest piece possible. The girl sitting next to me looked at me for a slight moment as though I was a creature from another world and then turned back into her own small world--herself. She laughed with a high inhuman laugh that seemed to pierce the whole room with sound. First I thought she was laughing at me and my measly portion of chicken--but only of news of how her ex-boyfriend had received a blow in the eye which now wore the colors black, blue, green and a tinge of red. I thought how she would look that same way but then another devilish thought entered my mind. “I hope she gets fat!” (Tracy 92) Who is this writer? What do we know about her? Where is she in this piece (T.E.)?: What techniques does she use? Record on the t-chart.
Listen to this young writer’s voice. What do you hear? I once felt like writing a poem about the moonlit door. Or the wooden lady whose face holds more secrets than her mind can speak. Or since silent spring never leaves, spring will always come. I once felt like writing about broken colored glass lying on a clear floor with sun sparkling. I thought of mysteries with passwords to unknown hideouts. And human detectives with house of dreams where there lives an old-fashioned girl that is someone’s little princess. And when she glimpses that girl in the mirror, her wonderland through the looking glass will hold love for little men and little women. I once felt like writing about closing doors and opening windows, learning to pretend, to live in fantasy, of courage and war and love that I have not felt but that will be tomorrow’s poem. For then it will be today and I will learn of love to come. For tomorrow is the future of today. (Alice 115) Who is this writer? What do we know about her? Where is she in this piece (TE)? What techniques does she use?Record.
Let’s practice! • How do you think you think these people would speak. Long and flowy sentences, or short and terse? Decisive or questioning tones. Maybe peppy or Sullen and sarcastic? How would they reveal themselves with language? Would they use metaphors? Or stick to the facts? • Considering the people we have analyzed today: Frida, Jeramay, Tracy, and Alice, choose one of the following and complete in the same section, • A) Explain which writer or artist you would go to lunch with and why, or • B) Write a dialogue between two of them about one of the following topics: • Where to eat lunch, what movie to go see, what kind of vacation to go on, or how their day at school went. • Don’t worry about punctuation as much. Just get the TONE correct based on how you imagine that person would respond.
VOICE • Voice is the writer coming through the words, the sense that a real person is speaking to us and cares about the message. It is the heart and soul of the writing, the magic, the wit, the feeling, the life and breath. When the writer is engaged personally with the topic, he/she imparts a personal tone and flavor to the piece that is unmistakably his/hers alone. If y And it is that individual something–different from the mark of all other writers–that we call Voice.
If you feel like you are being authentic when you write, your readers will feel that, too. Table Talk: How do we develop our writers’ voices? Consider the writers and artists you have encountered. What makes each one unique in her craft?
To find author’s voice, we will read and note tone and style devices the author uses and what this might reveal about that person.
Let’s find our voices! • Make a circle map • In the center, write your name. • In the inner circle, write who you are. Define yourself. Sister, brother, video gamer, dreamer, spitifire, athlete. You can also use adjectives: quiet, loquacious, introspective, honest, funny. Fill it up! • In the square, write who or what influences or has influenced you. You mother, your obsession with BTS, your third-grade teacher, Donald Trump, the Phillipines, The Giver, your desire to be a doctor, Hurricane Katrina, your culture, your city, pizza, the beach, singing. Specific is terrific.
