Sophomores Reading Sophomore Writing
2 min readJun 10, 2021
Voice is what we imagine while reading text on a page and what we hear while listening to a recording. It’s both in our minds and in the air. The voice we imagine for ourselves often sounds nothing like the voice we hear played back to us. Who is that talking? It’s you, really.
It’s complicated, like being a Sophomore, and it evolves.
At the end of a three week writing block at the end of long strange year, I asked the 10th grade to choose a favorite piece of their writing and record it.
This is what came of that request: an audio snapshot of their voices. Click here for the whole collection, uninterrupted. Below are all the pieces:
Jack’s Parent’s Dog by P.L.
A Plea to Stop my Dad’s Dry Humor by O.K.F.