The writers
Wendy, Juan, Cath,
Helene, Terry, Leonie, Pauline, Elizabeth, David C, Diane
News
The information
session on Suicide prevention will be conducted at 3 pm Wednesday 17 August
2016. This information is to assist us in judging entries in the Youth writing
competition.
The words of the day
Fudge = to cheat
Family = groups
Foray = incursion
or raid
Fustigate = to
beat with a stick
Philanthropy = a
love of mankind
Faugh = an
exclamation of disgust
Frolic = run and
play in a lively way
Funicular = worked
by cable or rope
Feral = wild after
being domesticated
Finagle = to get
something by trickery
Writing from words of the day
Helene – Anything
for fudge, Wendy – give him what for,
Juan – communicating with my Telco,
Terry – The senate, David – fire walking, Leonie – Dad didn’t like
Felix, Elizabeth – I would rather play marbles, Diane – Wanton behaviour, Cath
– They should be fustigated and Pauline - Quoting from a movie.
Eight writers read
their homework on the topic of memories: Di – All we have, Leonie – Contrasts,
David – Operation Lullaby, Terry – The best marble – a great story, Juan – The
ultimate sacrifice, Helene – My grandmother’s heart shaped locket, Pauline –
When the punishment was unfair and Cath – The boat trip.
Terry read out
Juan’s compassionate story “They call me refugee”.
Exercise
We wrote stories
and poems starting with the words “Yesterday when”
Homework
Write a poem or a
story about a holiday memory
For the meeting on
17 August provide a word of the day starting with the letter P.
