Sunday 26 February 2017

Today's New Learning

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Poetry Poker was the warm-up today.
Challenges included quick thinking and
creating using 5 exceptional but unexpected words.


The main learning involved creating mood (atmosphere) in writing through word choice. For example:
A shadow lay over the yard like a grave cloth.
The grass was long and unkempt. Against the
bole of a withered oak lay a child’s ball shrouded
by the creeping Bermuda. The features of the
house shimmered in the blaze of the afternoon,
blurred beyond recognition to the unwary stranger.

The Flipped Classroom this week is to complete your 2 examples which show your practice of this new learning.



Sunday 19 February 2017

Notice to parents

Click here for the Notice to Parents regarding the Extension Writing Programme.

Welcome to 2017 Ext(reme) Writing

Great to meet the new Ext(reme) Writers today - Angus, Izzi and Sierra.  Also wonderful for the 2016 writers to meet up again.  More writers will be joining us as the term goes by.

Our warm-up involved writing 6 word stories that held a hidden narrative. 


Today's focus was on writing a descriptive passage using figurative and descriptive features.  But the first paragraph had to be the opening line(s) of a published author.  What a wealth of talent we had in the room!  We will share some of these on the blog next week.

We will be meeting again next Monday (27th).  
Before that, the students will need to complete their draft, edit it, and type it up (if they wish).