Our second week’s content covers Voice. How do you change your voice to fit a story?

Includes presentation slides, activities list, and recommended readings. Presentation covers vocal variation, emotion, projection, and diction, among others.

Recommended Activities

• Inside Out

  • Have each student in the group read a chosen excerpt with a different emotion (sadness, disgust, anger, excitement, and surprise). Students can ONLY read the paragraph using the emotion they are assigned.  What do you notice? How did it make you feel?

  • Objective: help students understand when and why to use emotion in speaking

• Filler Word Game

  • Students try to speak for as long as you can on any topic without using any filler words. Instructor may provide students with prompts from a list.

  • Instructor times the student until they hear them say a filler word -> max is 3 minutes

  • Whoever speaks the longest without filler words wins

  • Objective: help students learn to remove filler words when they are speaking

Recommended Readings for Younger Students (grade 6 and below)

Recommended Readings for Older Students (grade 7 and above)