What did we get up to this week? Pacing and imagery for Zoom, poetry for schools!
Welcome parents, carers and young writers. Every week I will post here what we have been up to in writing clubs. The clubs are categorised by day so if your child attends a Tuesday club, for example, simply scroll down to Tuesday to see what we covered this week!
Monday
Monday Zoom Club: Today they had a choice of discussing pacing or imagery. They could choose between the topics or work on both if they had time. We discussed what pacing is and had examples of how to increase pacing to fast or slow within a story or within a scene. We then had four activities to choose from to practice writing fast or slow paced scenes. Or if they chose imagery, we also briefly reminded ourselves what imagery is and gave some examples and they had four options to choose from for responding. Well done to everyone – we had some wonderful sharing of fast and slow paced writing, which was lovely to analyse and also helpful to anyone unsure. We also had some great responses to the imagery topic, with more writing being shared from that!
Monday CJS Club: We looked at poetry today and they could choose between list poetry, Haikus and acrostic poems. I talked them through each type of poem first and it was great that we had a real mix of different responses. I took in The Lost Words, by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris to show them such beautiful examples of more complex acrostic poetry. Here are some examples:
Tuesday
Tuesday Zoom Club: They chose to tackle pacing rather than imagery and came up with some great examples of slow and fast paced writing.
Tuesday Bransgore C of E Primary: Back to poetry for the after school group! A choice of acrostic, haiku and list poems and again we had a lovely mix of all. I absolutely loved the three nature based poems one child wrote after being inspired by The Lost Word! We had also had some very good rhyming poems!
Wednesday
Wednesday 11 plus Zoom club: We discussed both pacing and imagery today – in particular ‘showing’ vs ‘telling’ in writing. Everyone had a go at either writing a random scene that was slow, fast or mixed, or carrying on with a on-going project and sharing an extract to discuss whether the scene is fast, slow or mixed. Fantastic work!
Wednesday 8-11 Zoom club: We looked at imagery, and in particular ‘showing’ vs ‘telling’. This was a new concept for some of them and they handled it brilliantly with plenty of curiosity and enthusiasm! They managed to liven up my boring ‘telling’ sentences by rewriting them into ‘showing’ sentences that were far more engaging! Well done guys!
Wednesday CJS club: back to poetry again! We had a lovely mix of rhyming poems, acrostic poems, haiku and list poems from this group today! Absolutely brilliant. Here are some examples:
Great work everyone!
Have a lovely half-term and I will see you all the week after!
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