Thursday 30 July 2015

Woop Woop!!!!

This Wednesday, Block 1 for those 20 people who put their name down.  
You have been sent an email!

CAN'T WAIT!

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Kate will also be talking to the school in Block 2.

Homework before11 August

Your homework is 
to give feedback, watch, look and think ... 
details below


  • To give effective feedback to your 2 writing buddies for their warm up from last week where they were showing a character's true emotions to the reader and false emotions to another character.
  • To watch this 5 min video about the different narrative points of view: 





  •  In prep for your warm- up, look at these 2 photos, and think about the different narrators that could tell about these situations.




Tuesday 28 July 2015

Homework before 4 August

To give effective feedback on 2 other students 'False vs True' emotion writing.  The feedback should be related to the goal:

  • to show the reader the true emotional state of a character through dialogue, actions, reactions, thoughts,etc 
          AS WELL AS showing the false emotion that is portrayed to another character


You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader. Nancy Kress


Friday 24 July 2015

Ella's New Words

Confliterature(Con-flit-er-aht-yor)-Any sort of conflict between two or more characters in a fictional story/book.
I read a book, I loved the confliterature in it.


Flipwrit(Flip-rit)-To kill off a main character in a fictional story/book

To give my story an unexpected twist, I flipwrit it.

Homework before 28 July

Go to this pdf and familiarise yourself with Pages 11- 40.  

In readiness for Tuesdsay's warm-up:

  • choose one of the emotions outlined in the pdf
  • think of a character who would be exhibiting that characteristic in a setting of your choice
On Tuesday, you will be writing a short paragraph where your reader will be shown that character's true emotion, BUT the character will be showing a false emotion to another character.

This warm up links to the new learning you did last week on True/False Emotion.  Here is the link to the document we discussed last Tuesday if you would like a reminder.


                       Bodies are Emotional Mirrors
  




Tuesday 21 July 2015

Aliya's invented words from the warm up yesterday

Posnegitive - Positive and negative
Upsetoyed - Annoyed and upset
Fantity - Believing fantasy is real and reality is fake
Dooscribe - Doodling and writing
Alphanumeral - Replacing letters of the alphabet with numbers
Clockle - When time starts to trickle
Shongest - Simultaneously long and short
Clichiterature - A story, poem or novel written in a similar style or resembling an almost exact plot.
Worditer - Somebody who creates new weird and wonderful words
Digiscribe - Describing someone based on information from the Internet
Unhealthsessed - Having an unhealthy obsession
Humonster - A monster that seems human or a human who is a monster
Ovblindious - Seeing without really seeing
Humanimal - An animal with human like traits or a human with animal characteristics
Depersonify - Describing a person as an object or possesion
Drowsper - Drowning in despair
Brounbly - Bright, bouncy and bubbly
Crammerful - Something that cannot contain anymore because it is too crammed and full
Numervu - Experiencing deja vu numerously
Killcure - Something that heals and hurts you simultaneously
Genenetration - The Internet generation
Mind-travel - Time travelling with your mind
Lollilate - Lollies shaped as chocolate bars
Combanimal - Combining or breeding two or more species of animal

Wednesday 15 July 2015

Homework: to be complete before Tues 21

Humpty Dumpty

Watch Go Ahead and Make Up New Words (6 mins) for homework.   

You will need to watch this before the warm up activity on Tuesday.



Thursday 9 July 2015

New Competition

STARLING: A new online literary journal for New Zealand writers under 25 years old. 


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The deadline for the first issue is October 20. 
Go to   http://www.starlingmag.com/   for details