Can You Hear Me Now

Can You Hear Me Now?

1.  Teacher will read excerpts from different formats: newspapers, encyclopedias, textbooks, best sellers, advertisements, business letters, friendly letters – because each has a different purpose and VOICE. Students will try and identify which format and which VOICE. Students may not be able to identify VOICE with one word, but may be able to describe it.

2.  Teacher will read examples of VOICE from television, radio, song lyrics, literature, journals, poems, political arenas, etc., that the students are familiar with and have students identify the author by their VOICE. After they have identified the author they can identify the VOICE or describe it. For example, they may identify Jerry Seinfeld and then describe him as sarcastic and funny, OR students may identify George Bush and describe him as intelligent and polished.

Can You Hear Me Now?

______Out, out, brief candle!

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury

Signifying nothing.

______I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

______I am inspired by people who rise above their adversity. That’s my deepest inspiration. And also I’m inspired by the fact that if I really, really want to, I think I can do anything.

______Trees are great and beautiful machines, powered by sunlight, taking in water from the ground, and carbon dioxide from the air, converting these materials into food for their use and ours. The plant uses the carbohydrates it makes as an energy source to go about its planty business.

______I saw the lips of the black-robed judges. They appeared to me white-whiter than the sheet upon which I trace these words – and thin even to grotesqueness; thin with the intensity of their expression of firmness – of stern contempt of human torture.

______Reading was just plain torture. When Sue Ellyn read her page, or Tommy Bob read his page, they read so easily that Trisha would watch the top of their heads to see if something was happening to their heads that wasn’t happening to hers….She just knew she was dumb.

·  Harry Truman

·  Bill Clinton

·  Abe Lincoln

·  Shakespeare

·  Patricia Palocco

·  Mem Fox

·  Raith Ringgold

·  Carl Sagan

·  Bill Nye

·  Harper Lee

·  Edgar Allan Poe

·  Stephen King