Comments on: Teen Voices http://www.darcypattison.com/writing-life/teen-voices/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Darcy Pattison http://www.darcypattison.com/writing-life/teen-voices/comment-page-1/#comment-4652 Darcy Pattison Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:55:51 +0000 http://www.darcypattison.com/?p=1963#comment-4652 Ann - Thanks! It was great. It's hard to explain the exercise, because when I teach I'm sorta like a storyteller who is responding to the audience. Lots of my exercises are in the <a href="http://paperlightning.com" rel="nofollow">Paper Lightning</a> book. This time, I started with oral storytelling. The kids paired up and told a story about something that happened to them. It's timed, so they only have one minute to tell the story (and that's hard to fill up sometimes). Then, they told another story each. And another. Finally, they chose their favorite and told it a different way. An example that hit home for many of them was audience: if you have a car wreck the way you tell about it to your best friend is sure not the way you tell your mom, and it's for sure not the way you tell the cop about it. (Of course - they are revising their story, without even knowing it, and before they've committed anything to paper.) Then, they tell it AGAIN, a different way. Only after all that oral rehearsal do they write a first draft. And it went from there. Darcy Ann -
Thanks! It was great.
It’s hard to explain the exercise, because when I teach I’m sorta like a storyteller who is responding to the audience. Lots of my exercises are in the Paper Lightning book. This time, I started with oral storytelling. The kids paired up and told a story about something that happened to them. It’s timed, so they only have one minute to tell the story (and that’s hard to fill up sometimes). Then, they told another story each. And another. Finally, they chose their favorite and told it a different way. An example that hit home for many of them was audience: if you have a car wreck the way you tell about it to your best friend is sure not the way you tell your mom, and it’s for sure not the way you tell the cop about it.

(Of course – they are revising their story, without even knowing it, and before they’ve committed anything to paper.) Then, they tell it AGAIN, a different way. Only after all that oral rehearsal do they write a first draft.

And it went from there.

Darcy

]]> By: Ann Finkelstein http://www.darcypattison.com/writing-life/teen-voices/comment-page-1/#comment-4650 Ann Finkelstein Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:57:14 +0000 http://www.darcypattison.com/?p=1963#comment-4650 This is a great post, Darcy. And I'm sure it was a valuable experience for the teens. I'd be interested to read more about the writing exercise. This is a great post, Darcy. And I’m sure it was a valuable experience for the teens. I’d be interested to read more about the writing exercise.

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