Block Day, Week 7

* Open

God's Knight and Jester: G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

* Memorization Quiz

* Check PSAT Scores

* Grammar: Do exercise 20-1, all numbers (that's in lesson 20d).

* 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.  
• 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. 

* Now, choose one of the following Poe stories that you have not yet read from this book:

• Edgar Allen Poe (Vol. 2)

* Next, read the following essays:

G.B. Shaw, Hilaire Belloc, and G.K. Chesterton

• "The Mowing of a Field" by Hilaire Belloc
• "A Piece of Chalk" by G.K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton's Writing Chair

*J4: Compare and contrast voice in one essay and one Poe tale (1 page or more). Reno's class should contrast Poe with Chesterton.

HW: Begin J4 (due Tuesday)