The players
Wendy, David R,
Helene, David C, Lyn, Geoff, Leonie, Pauline, Elizabeth
Words of the day
Engross =
enthralled or be captured by
Copious =
plentiful
Persiflage =
frivolous talk
Esculent = good food
Stumblebum =
inept, clumsy, awkward person
Proclivity =
habitual
Sonata = piece of
music in several movements for one instrument with or without piano
Palaver = idle
talk, time wasting fuss
Stories from words of the day
We created stories
on the topics The string quartet, I dream of a piano at home, I couldn’t play, Spilled
soup, The Itty bitty holiday story, No frivolous stumblebums here, Visitors
interrupt homework, Conversation and food, and the audience.
Only a few stories today but they were well written - Good vibrations, Bad taste in women, The
devious wife, Tangled sheets, Drama in the library and the Book deal.
Exercises
1. We used the
phrase “She hurried down the pathway through the gate” to create stories of
rainy weather, storms, the vista of daffodils under blue sky, thunder before
rain, an umbrella too small, gates to hell in a media circus, black cockatoos
squawking and the sound of a heartbeat.
2. We wrote
stories and poems on the emotion “Shame” and I remember that hairstyle and wrote about -Telling the truth,
A fly blown hairstyle, The blue organza dress, No unseemly conduct here, A dishonest teacher, Bullying and Sorry old man – a funny poem from Wendy.
Homework
Satisfaction
