Child story

I chose to read "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" for my story for the project.  I had a lot of fun reading this story and I really got into acting like I was reading it to children.  Evergy was needed for this book and voice change was necesary due to the fact that the Grinch is a mean old creature who hates Christmas.  Being loud and energetic is something I can produce well with my voice.  Christmas is my favorite time of the year and the Grinch is my favorite story.  I got to experiment on speaking loud and just having fun.  Even when I would read to students who I taught to preschool kids two years ago, I would get into character and have fun to keep their attention. Even though I did not have children sitting in front of me when I read this, I still felt as though I needed to be fun and happy while reading so that I would insinuate keeping the attention of my audience without boring or losing them to something else.  It is important to enunciate and speak somewhat slowly because Dr. Seuss is very big on rhyming.  With this, is books are not always easy to read let alone behind a microphone.  So it was a challenge yet exciting to do so.

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Poems

Monotone voice can be very boring.  Yet sometimes, it's what's needed to set the tone and feeling of a piece.  When I read the poem "The Road Not Travelled" by Robert Frost, I did it in two different tones.  One of cheerfuless and enthusiasm and one of  monotone.  This poem is not something of exciting words or a happy story line.  It is a calm poem that is about solitude and should be read in a slow paced tone.  Go figure that the one I recorded in monotone was the one that worked the best with this piece! The one with excitment in my voice just didn't sound right due to the way this poem is written.  Frost wants you to really think about the path that is away from what everyone else has taken.  Solitude is lonely and quiet and he is deciding which path is best for him.  I believe that I keep the attention more when my voice is monotone but this will not work for everything.  It can lose the attention of your listeners and cause them to tune out what you are saying.  I think that I produce this piece well with the monotone voice.  I had fun with this piece because I could express excitement when not needed and then I could express my true feelings in the way I read the poem.

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