Helene, Trevor,
Pat, Fran and Pauline and apologies from Terry
The words of the day
Ascorbic acid – Vitamin C
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.
Write a story or
poem including a clock.
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Big ben
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