05 February 2014

Record of meeting 5 February 2014

 
Words of the day

Selfie = a self portrait photograph

Angst = feeling of anxiety sometimes associated with depression

Subtle = so delicate

Rebuke = to criticise with sharpness and often abruptness

Hireling = a person who is hired for dubious work

Evoke = to bring forth or recall to the conscious mind

Infallible = faultless, floorless, perfect, never wrong

Gravitas = dignity, solemness

 
Reading of writing from words of the day

We created wacky stories from words of the day about

Fifi taking a Selfie in the bath, Before the wedding, Artistic achievements, Leave the mines, Red hot pants, Promoting himself, A hireling photographer and All over the country.

 
Reading of homework

We read brilliant stories and poems on the topics

Helene – Lost time

Wendy- What the Heck

Garry- lost teeth and glasses

Terry- Memories

Margaret- Colour Blue

David- Sat Nav

Leonie- A Strand of Loose Hair

Melissa- Accent

 
Announcements

Terry – announced Wild about Words (a literature component of the See Change festival consisting of local readings) will occur at the end of May at Boo Books in Huskisson.  Sue Kucharova, an organiser of the event will come to a meeting to give us more info.

 
Book recommendations and discussion

David. R - Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser (Miles Franklin award 2013)

Margaret- A Fortune Teller Told Me by Tiziano Terzani

Discussion about words- the wonderful, the wacky, and the weird!

 
Quick write

We spent five minutes describing a person's physical characteristics in terms of food – yummy stuff

 
Homework

George never would have guessed a coffin could hold so many marbles.