12 September 2018

Record of meeting 12 September 2018

The writers

Helene, Trevor, Pat, Fran and Pauline and apologies from Terry


The words of the day

Ascorbic acid – Vitamin C

Culpable – deserving blame

Moral – ethical, good decent

Wedged – force into a narrow space

Ornament – something used for decoration

Acerbic – sharp and forthright way of speaking

Morphology – study of form, structure eg biology

Morpheme – smallest unit of meaning in a language eg word

Palpable – so intense as to seem tangible, able to touched or felt

Loop hole – an ambiguity or inadequacy in the law or set of rules or an arrow slit in a wall



Writing from words of the day

The writers wrote palpably about - Blood on the sand, Professor Peter – Orange man, Too seriously, Memories of lavender and So much has happened.


Reading of homework

Four writers read out crime stories about - Tom’s travel companions, Bianca, The explosion and Ode to M Beaton.


Exercise – The perfect plan

Juan emailed his crime story the Perfect Plan asking us to find forensic type mistakes in the story. Fran read out the crime story and the writers identified around 14 mistakes.

Exercise – Setting for a crime

The writers each created a crime scene as follows - The TV was on, Umbrella on the roof, Always a cliché, The waterfall and More mistakes.


Homework

Write a story or poem including a clock.
Big ben






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