* Open
* Assignment from Mrs. Basilius:
1) Ask students to email me: bethbasilius@mvcs.org
2) Subject line: my hidden talent
3) Tell yearbook the yearbook staff about any talent you may have that others do not know about.
* Voice
- Turco's next section is on voice. His take is very abstract.
- God has a voice (Genesis 1, Psalm 29, Jesus' baptism, etc.).
- You are made in God's image.
- You have a voice.
- Your voice is unique. This voice arises even through your written words.
- Every author, in this way, is said to have a voice.
- The voice may be the natural writing of the author or a voice they put on or invent for the narrative situation.
- Because voice is a complex idea which encompasses more than one term or element, most books don't even cover it. They put tone in one category, perspective in another, and leave it there. But since Turco raises the concern, we will answer it.
- Voice is the tone and perspective by which the author communicates a story to the reader. Voice has a subjective and an objective quality:
- Subjectively, it is and includes a tone, a timbre. You know your mother's voice when she calls to you.
- Objectively, we may talk about the perspective an author chooses to deliver this voice:
- First person: "I..."
- Second person: "You..." (or, rarely, plural "We")
- Third person: "She..."
This perspective (first, second, and third) may be omniscient (knows all...can speak of internal thoughts and attitudes of character), limited (to one person's or character's knowledge)...or it may play between the two, which many texts do.
* Reading pieces:
- "The Mowing of a Field" by Hilaire Belloc
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| Walk the wonderlands with Belloc. |
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| Oldest Mowing Method |
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| Next oldest: the scythe. Steep Swiss mountains discourage machinery...plus the Swiss are awesome...even more awesome than Cowboys, even of the Dallas variety. |
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| A harvesting team: "Train them up in the way they should go." |
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| Prettier Harvesting Team |
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| Bieber? Sounds weak; I'm marrying a strong man. |
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| "Dad's mowing in a coat and tie...call Mom." |
"A Piece of Chalk" by G.K. Chesterton
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| Pieces of Chalk: The Uffington Horse on White Horse Hill. 3,000 years old and still galloping. G.K. Chesterton's greatest poem is The Ballad of the White Horse. |
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| The downs from the horsey's perspective: Insert Tolkien adventure here. |
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| The White Cliffs of Dover (also chalk) |
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| Kinkade just died, so it's not fair to spar...but this, this my friend, is better art by far. |
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| Chalk walk: Glory be to God for chalky things! |
* Journal 4: Compare and contrast voice in one essay and one Poe tale (1 page or more)
* Tomorrow, I'm going to ask you to find what you consider the best single line from these three pieces. If you come across something good in the course of looking into J4, note it now to save some time tomorrow.
HW: Finish Journal 4; Binder check this week; CWP due this week
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