Record of meeting 20 August 2014

News of the week

David C is waiting for his second great grandchild to arrive. Leonie put several flowering plants in her garden this morning. Geoff had problems with his computer and modem. Jo attended a meeting on Monday because she was concerned about a small child riding a bike on her street but nothing happened and also bought in heaps of watches to show us – all fakes. Pauline invited people to attend a 500 card group at 1.15 pm Mondays at the Country Club Sanctuary point and happy she can stay till 4 pm today. Wendy is addicted to Cryptic crosswords and hasn’t had time to do much else. Helene watched 2 DVDs at home this week during the rain - Bullit and the Great Gatsby. Melissa co-hosted a radio show with Terry on Monday about cars. Terry is researching buying another camera. Di is waiting to learn how to use her new computer.

 

Words of the day

Acumen = wisdom, knowledge, ability

Incandescence = glowing with light

Pecuniary = financial

Mediation = an agreement between parties

Opine = to state an opinion

Prodigal = wasteful, recklessly extravagant

Curate = person in charge of something

Fungible = interchangeable

Prodigy = person with marvellous gift

Eschew = to shun as unworthy, avoid, abstain from

Gobble = to swallow hastily in large pieces

Zenith = the top

 

Stories from words of the day

We created a range of brilliant stories from the words of the day - The play write burnt out, Under the weeping willow tree, The beacon, God help us all, The fashion exhibition, Debt, We light the room – a great poem from Terry, In the harbour, A brilliant career, Hiding on the balcony, Kevin Rudd’s anger and at the show in silver tulle.

 

Reading of homework

Cath – A warm day ahead

Jo - Lifting the curtain

Leonie – In the café

David C – The shepard’s hut

Terry – What happened to dad?

Helene – the book

Lynn – A day never again repeated

 

Reading of stories

Di read a childhood story “Wait a bit man” from an old book

Melissa – read a letter and poem from her grandfather written for her 40 th birthday.  The poem was based on his experiences of loos and animals in Mildura.

 

Exercise

As Melissa is leaving JB to move to Adelaide this month we wrote stories to honour Adelaide

Jo – not on my radar

Pauline – new friends in Adelaide

Geoff – travel to Adelaide with work

Leonie – I want to go to Adelaide

David C – Adelaide gave her hand

Diana – three weeks in Adelaide

Terry – A girl called Adelaide – a great poem

Melisa – Lemonade and yurts

Helene – Aunty Mickey

Wendy – Adelaide the stripper – another great poem

Lynne – snakes in a hessian house

Cath – settlers only in Adelaide

 

Homework - 1,500 word story in three parts (max 500 each part)

Part 1 – introduction of two characters – was due 20 August 2014

Part 2 – the body of the story – due 27 August 2014

Part 3 – the conclusion – due 3 September 2014

If you haven’t already done Part 1, you can read it on 27 August 2014