Creative writing

 DO NOW: 

• Choose a place you are scared of going to: the dentist OR the doctor OR the principal OR the police.
• You have precisely 63 words to describe this experience. 
• You must use at least one short, simple sentence.
• You must use at least one complex sentence.
• You must use at least one language technique (e.g.simile, metaphor, personification, onomoatopeia)

Here is my attempt:

Cold dread filled me.  Had they narked?  Would I be dragged into their drama in the worst ever situation - a robbery?  I approached the police station doors warily, feeling like I had "guilty idiot" written on my head in neon, glowing, capital letters.

The receptionist smiled and greeted me kindly.  Then her eyes brightened.  Mine didn't.  The next door neighbour.  I was doomed.

Go to https://b.socrative.com/login/student/ Room name: MSQUICK

Write your answer on Socrative.  I will see student names (and know you are working well)

but names will not be shown on the screen.

Learning objective: to develop ideas for creative writing

Success criteria:

1. I can use a variety of sentences (short, long, simple and complex) to describe going to the dentist, the doctor, the principal or the police.

2. I can use adventurous vocabulary and a range of language techniques to describe going to the dentist, the doctor, the principal or the police.

3. I can use the slide show (in your NHK English folder, called Assignment: Creative Writing) to help me develop an idea for the creative writing competition.

Friday 12 November 2021

 Year 9 & 10 - in your NHK English folders on Google Drive, you will see a slideshow on creative writing.  We are going to look carefully at this slide show, and then get started on our own creative writing.

Year 11 - focus on exam preparation, and completing any missing literacy portfolio work.

Writing paragraph responses

  Yesterday we explored the poem school sucks but at least ur friends are there.

We identified seven language techniques in the poem, and learned some new techniques in the process.

Today we are learning to write paragraph responses to a poem.  Our paragraphs will:

• use the wording of the question
• use the language techniques terminology
• include the effect of the language techniques

You have three questions to work on.  Everyone should complete ONE question, and many of you will do two or even three.  Focus on doing a really good job before you move on.

1. How does the writer show what it feels like to be a teenager at school?
2. What does the writer suggest about the feelings some teenagers have at the end of the school holidays?
3. How does the writer use the five senses to develop ideas about school and school holidays?

school sucks but at least ur friends are there

 

school sucks but at least ur friends are there, by Vanessa Mei Crofskey

u can only walk around the suburbs so often on bright days so hot
the concrete crackles n text ur friends at malls and fields and malls again

before u start to get bored of running
out of things to do &

miss the lush red first kiss of a fresh 1B5
and the girls in ur class with lip gloss scented stationery

& the boys who draw on their mates legs with sharpies &
also i guess learning new things every day

school sucks but all my friends are there
spreading colds as quick as climate change

no one shares germs with me in the holidays

in the holidays my outside voice wears jeans with grassy knees
& watches compilation youtube videos on the highest volume

& i walk around the suburbs on days so hot the ice block
drips down my wrist    with sticky fingers it feeds the crackling concrete

Find and label the following language techniques:
-onomatopeia
- simile
- alliteration
- enjambement
- deliberate subverting of writing conventions
- first-person narrator
- personification

Tuesday 21 September 2021

Big question: who is the best sportsperson or musician active in the world today?

 - tell me what makes them so impressive, with specific examples.

Write your answer on a google doc and then paste it into the comments on this blogpost.

Information on learning showcase next week -  everyone to have speeches ready to present.

Friday 17 September 2021

 Options for today:

1. You can watch this documentary about Tame Iti.

2. You can create a report on your trip to Lake Brunner yesterday, or a poem about it, or a song.

3. You can work on your podcast or your speech.

4. You can read a novel.

Lockdown learning 6 September: language techniques & podcast celebrations

Some awesome interviewing last week - ka mau te wehi!

Today we are going to expand our language techniques kete.  We will gain confidence with using a range of techniques, including:

• rhetorical question
• similes, metaphor, personification
• hyperbole
• alliteration
• onomatopeia
• assonance
• rhyme
• rhythm
• anecdote
• antonym
• jargon
• imperative

If you didn't finish your podcast last week, we can troubleshoot that and you can work on it this week.

I will also set some reading comprehension work focused on language techniques for you to do during this week.  Hopefully I will see you in class very soon!