Juan, Wendy, Cath, Helene, Jenny, Elizabeth, Terry, Lynn, Diane
welcome back to Amanda & welcome to
Margaret
Words of the day
Opportune – well timed
Pedagogue –a teacher
Hoyden – a boisterous girl
Immolate – to kill as a sacrifice
Flatter – praise insincerely, show to advantage
Narrative – spoken or written tale of connected events
Sycophant – a person who flatters someone in a servile way
Hypocrite – claiming to have higher standards than is the
case, false pretender
Clairvoyant – power of seeing things beyond the natural
range of senses
Writing from words of
the day
The writers took the opportunity to grab the words and wrote
the following: Cath – Interaction, Lynn – The volatile class, Helene – So many
boring stories, Wendy – Now is the time, Juan – How your mother died, Elizabeth
– What are you doing here, Amanda – The right hand, Margaret – The news of the
day, Jenny – A crime prevented and Terry – He sits on the throne – a great
narrative.
Reading of homework
Three writers who had no obsessions read out their
homework: Jenny – Quirks, Terry – A cable tie or two – a great funny
poem and Juan – The cries and tears – very moving.
Exercise – Take a
leap of faith
The writers created a range of serious and not so serious stories: Lynn
– Play it safe, Cath – Learning new skills, Terry – Overawed, Jenny – Moving house and life, Margaret –
Needing love, Amanda – What direction, Elizabeth – Learning to ski, Juan – Look to the future, Diane -
Justice and injustice, Wendy - Hurtling to the ground and Helene – The marble eye.
Homework
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