The Southern Arizona Writing Project offers five Saturday Seminars during the 2000-2001 school year with new workshop titles at each session.
Workshops focus on specific areas of writing or student writing at different grade levels.
Participants will attend two ninety minute workshops offered at each session. Whether you've taught writing for twenty days or twenty years, join others to learn new ideas and activities from teachers who have used them successfully in their classrooms. This presentation will offer insights toward empowering students of all age and ability levels to discover, trust and listen to their own voices. We will uncover clearer definitions for the trait of voice, activities to practice and develop different writing voices, as well as examples and techniques for altering the formulaic and lifeless academic voice. During this presentation you will be using interactive writing activities to help your students develop voice and enhance word choice through the use of description and sensory exploration.