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Summary for Lesson 1
In today’s lesson we began our new course on writing challenges, where every week the students will be introduced to two writing challenges- one fiction, one non-fiction- with various elements of style, grammar, and language that they have to include. These lessons are about honing the class’s writing skills and enabling them to practice lots of different types of writing, alongside evaluating their own and others’ work. They will over the course of our lessons together form a large base of written work with which to experiment, and have practice writing in many different genres, formats, and styles. The class produced some gorgeous work today based on a prompt that required them to think about using structure stylistically and engaging with the genres of mystery and horror. We spoke about prepositional phrases, parallelism, auditory imagery, and the use of breaking conventions in order to create tension and suspense. Everyone was super engaged today and worked really well together to think of some inspiring and electrifying examples of their writing. They also produced some excellent metaphors at the beginning of class. Great work today everyone- keep up the energy and enthusiasm and I’ll see you next week 🙂
P.S. Remember that you can use the PowerPoint to help you with the homework writing challenge and if you have any questions you can post them below.
Isocolon video for homework: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0s4za13LCE&feature=emb_logo
Parallelism video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2FgUrln1A
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Hi Beth,
I’ve done the writing challenge, and I’m going to do the writing challenges all in this document from now on. Thanks for the lovely lesson, it was nice to get creative.🏆📜✒🖋
Bye,
Yunshu
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Dear Beth,
Thank you for the purely supernatural lesson-it was very much spooky!😋😀😉💡✏✒
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Writing Prompt 3: A House with Chicken Legs
Vocab to include；colossal, scaled, verterbrate
Techniques:Metaphor, Pacing, extended adverbial phrase.
Prompt: It was a dark night out in the Deep Wood, a night that was full of chickens clucking away…
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Hi Beth,
Here is my in-class piece of writing with my self-evaluation of it. I don’t really want to send in my self-evaluation of my homework.
Again, thanks for the spectacular lesson. See you next Monday!❤
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Amazing work Yichen- really well done! Your vocab is outstanding and your building of suspense is really intriguing and fits your genre beautifully, with the comical twist at the end delivering a lovely final punchline. Thank you for sending this, it was great fun to read! Also, no worries about the homework self-evaluation, you can always keep those to yourself if you’d prefer 🙂
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Hi Beth,
Loved the first lesson of this term’s writing course ☆*: .｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆! Please find this week’s homework attached
Thanks,
Aryan
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Summary for Lesson 2
In today’s lesson we continued our new course on writing challenges, looking today at notions such as semantic field, semi-colons to suggest thematic relation and embedded clauses. We began the class with a fiction prompt requiring the students to think about different ways to use the semantic field of warfare (i.e., through metaphor, word choice, allusion etc.) alongside some grammatical and technical considerations such as semi-colons and similes. Everyone worked really incredibly in today’s class and I was particularly impressed by their metaphor work and ideas about how to suggest connotations through semantic fields. Gorgeous work class, as always, remember to save your writing challenge and your self-evaluation (mark out of ten, WWW, EBI) and have fun with this week’s homework challenge- I look forward to seeing you next week! 🙂
Video on semantic fields: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqz00WbWggY
Homework
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Dear Beth,
Thank you for the fab lesson!(✿◡‿◡)
🎈🎇🎆✨🎉🎊
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Joke:
What did the logical farmer use for his pasture?
A semantic field!🎈
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Dear Beth,
I hope you have a lovely week! Thank you for the lesson. 🖼🎨It was artistic and I enjoyed it!
Kind Regards,
Yunshu
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Dear Beth,
Thank you for the amazing ‘water balloon’ lesson! Please find my homework attached.
Thanks,
Aryan
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Summary for Lesson 3
In today’s lesson we continued our writing challenges, focusing in today’s lesson on some advanced and extended metaphor work and also the three new techniques of allusion, prolepsis and antithesis. We began the class with a non-fiction prompt requiring the students to think about persuasive writing that included an equal amount of figurative and persuasive techniques. We touched on the connotational effect of metaphor and spoke about how prolepsis is about ‘reading the future’ of what your opposition might claim to discredit your opinion. We also practiced some work on allusion, thinking about what effect the technique creates and how this can overlap with metaphor. The class then went on to write some amazingly persuasive and fascinating pieces thinking about the range of arguments that could be made in favour or opposition to the prompt. I was also really impressed by their use of so many advanced techniques and their recall with regards to their meaning- well done everyone! 🙂
Allusion video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF3ANKEPoko
Homework
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Dear Beth,
Thank you for the awe-tastic lesson! 🎠🎨🖌✒🖋😁😊😉
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Toungue-Twisters:
The Camelon Cat Caterer Constantly Can caper casseroles and carry cocktail concoctions. 🐱🍸🍢
Infernos in Dante’s living room roaring and running rows of rope rummaged through. 🔥
Graffiti ground is green, girdling up Gareth’s garden glacier.⛺🛤🌡
Have a nice Week!😁😊😉
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Hi Beth,
Please kindly find my homework attached below. Sorry for not being able to fully attend the lesson on Monday, I had a look at the PowerPoint to do the writing challenges (I also did the one the others did in class).
Have a good week,
Yunshu
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Also- gorgeous work on the classwork! I love the tone of your article, your use of allusion and the strength of opinion you are harnessing. There is some really powerful imagery (I love that the graffiti in question says “be free”) and some fantastic use of narrative and anecdote. Could you perhaps experiment with even more newspaper features such as statistics or quotations from those involved? Overall fab work 🙂
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Dear Beth,
Sorry for submitting my homework late as I was on holiday. Please find my homework attached.
Thanks,
Aryan
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Summary for Lesson 4
In today’s lesson we continued our writing challenges, focusing in today’s lesson on some techniques particularly common in suspense writing. We began our lesson looking at perspective and how it can communicate different types of narrative, before moving on to thinking about the trope of the unreliable narrator. We looked at some famous examples of this technique and discussed different ways and purposes of it being used. We then touched on different forms that foreshadowing can take, and subtle techniques that can help create intricate webs of suspense through foreshadowing. There were some fantastic contributions today and everyone worked in a creative and engaged fashion throughout. I loved hearing the class’s metaphor work- which was brilliant today- and their examples of both overt and covert foreshadowing. Keep up the great work everyone and I’ll see you next week 🙂
Video on unreliable narrators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM7pALSwH_I&t=321s
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Dear Beth,
Thank you for the paw🐾-mazing lesson!
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😉🎨✨🧶🎢🎗🎪🎀🎊
Unreliable narrators
Narrate for the crowd
and end up being criminals
In the World of Literature bound.
💡📚📜✒📃🖌📕✂📖⏳✏🖍🖋📓🔍🖇📌📈📅📋📁🗑⏰
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Dear Beth,
I hope that you are well, thank’s for the lesson. Sorry for turning up late, I was doing work before!!! 🙂
What is prolepsis and how to use it?
Kind regards,
Yunshu
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Hi Yunshu- prolepsis is when you anticipate a reader’s answer to your idea and then prove it wrong, so you guess what they are going to say in response to your argument
i.e., “some of you will be thinking ‘hang on a second, eating meat is the only way to get enough protein’- this however is a common misconception” or “people may argue that I am incorrect because of X, Y Z, but they are wrong because…”. We covered it in lesson 3 so you can check the PPT for that to help 🙂
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Also- wonderful work on the class-work Yunshu. As I said in the lesson, I love your use of narrative voice in your story and how you’ve created a conversational tone between the narrator and reader that leads us to question what exactly is going on. You’ve used lots of suspense and have hinted at loads of possible events to come that create a sense of foreboding- excellent work! Just remember to try to always use show don’t tell, so instead of lines such as “I was very scared” could you think of a more evocative way of saying this i.e., “I felt the blood in my veins turn to sluggish ice”. Overall, lovely work well done 🙂
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Dear Beth,
Thanks for the extremely cool lesson ψ(｀∇´)ψ + Happy easter! Please find my homework attached.
Thanks,
Aryan
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Hi Beth,
Thanks for the spectacular lesson (although the dummy was very creepy!) Here is my homework.
Yichen ╰(*°▽°*)╯
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Summary for Lesson 5
In today’s lesson we continued our writing challenges, focusing in today’s lesson on some techniques revolving around perspective and chronology. We began by thinking about ways in which to make decisions about the perspective of a book- working with three different types of third person perspective (objective, limited and omniscient) which the students then used excellently in their challenges. We then spoke briefly about how to alter the chronology of a piece through techniques such as flashback, and spoke about the purpose of oxymoron. Everybody worked beautifully today- the metaphor work was particularly outstanding and I really enjoyed hearing the unusual, creative and stylised approaches everyone had taken to the question. Gorgeous writing everyone and well done for independently coming up with such fascinating uses of each technique. Well done everyone and see you next week 🙂
Point of view video (watch the rest of if you have time): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz97FJL6VMo
Video on isocolon to help with homework: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0s4za13LCE3
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Dear Beth,
Thank you for the perfectly mysterious lesson!
Wishing you a Sparkler-plosive week.
🔎💡🔎💡🔎🕯🔎💡🕯🔎💡🕯🔎💡🕯🔎💡🕯🔎💡🔎🕯🔎💡🕯🔎💡🕯🔎💡🕯🔎💡🕯🔎💡🕯🔎💡
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Dear Beth,
Please find my work attached. Have an explosively-fantastic week and thank you for the lesson!
Yunshu
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Hi Beth,
Thanks for the explosively-spectacular lesson!🎆🎇Here’s my homework. Happy late Earth Day!
Yichen
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Summary for Lesson 6
In today’s lesson we continued our writing challenges, thinking today about ways of creating new, unusual perspectives such as with bird’s eye view and digging deeper into how to create effective and intriguing settings. We spoke about the benefits and limitations of writing from a bird’s eye view, as required by the prompt, and considered the ways in which this could be interpreted both metaphorically and literally. Secondly, the class thought about how to create a setting that was appropriate for their pieces, considering elements such as creating an emotional stake in the setting for the narrator or protagonist and using pathetic fallacy; they all used these elements beautifully in their challenges too. Fantastic work today everyone- your metaphor work and creative thinking was on point all lesson! Keep up the great work and I’ll see you next week 🙂
Setting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORKI1h1xWLM
Pathetic Fallacy examples if you’d find it helpful to see some: https://penlighten.com/pathetic-fallacy-explained-with-examples
P.S. The mountains Amber asked about at the end are in New Zealand!
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Dear Beth,
Thank You for the plum-astic-bulous lesson!🍑🍹🌸🏵🍁🌲🍀🌾🌺🌵🍄😊
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Descriptive Image Writing
Image 1.
The glow of fruity pink colours splashed over the orange, balled up sky. Streaks of pink faded into blue as The Mountain hovered, gazing with a command in its deep earth-reaches. Like a llama-cross-camel’s hump, hulking in a severe fashion, tones of wise old men set in earth millennias ago bright and glowing beneath its cavernous presence. A scent of light peppermint carried on Her Ladyship the Breeze’s breath, sending swooping green pinecones drifting along the lake’s glittering, gossamer shores.
[I think the two pictures bellow are in the small islands dotted around New Zealand-perhaps😁🏞🌸]
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Summary for Lesson 7
In today’s lesson we completed our final writing challenge in the lesson, working on some new ideas regarding word choice and linguistic play. We looked today into the notion of linguistic ecosystems, where the language mimics the themes of the writing, and spoke about defamiliarizing verbs and specifying nouns. Furthermore, we looked at the notion of puns and how to create a climax even in a piece of non-fiction. We touched briefly on the notion of character creation to ensure a powerful, opinionated voice in persuasive writing and thought about how this could influence the semantic field and tone of the writing. Finally, the students engaged in some revision of the advanced techniques we have studied, such as prolepsis, unreliable narrator and parallelism. Gorgeous work from everyone in the class today- really well done! I was super impressed by the knowledge exhibited today and think everyone’s writing and confidence in experimenting with new forms and techniques have come on in leaps and bounds- amazing job guys! Watch the rest of the video below if you get a chance and remember to have a quick revision before our mock next week. Well done everyone, fab work today 😊
Word choice video to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKoOxrcVnHM
Writing exercise video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzi17WRMpN8
Homework
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Hello Beth,
Thank you for the spectacular lesson 😊🍺!
I found this really nice picture of a beach lit by moonlight when I was browsing for wallpaper for my phone and decided to write a description for the scene:
The moon was high and bright, shining above the glimmering ocean. The waves licked playfully at the miniature sand dunes, taking the material with them and giving it back. The sky looked like a filter of colours; the silvery glow of the bright, round lamp melting into the midnight blue sky, dying the folds of the night blanket a lighter shade of navy. In the far background, stars made their futile efforts to show in the moonlight, but the moon was the main character in their story. A palm tree bent over the sand, observing the endless waves washing the sand. It looked black in the dark, a mere silhouette on the beach.
Thank you,
Yunshu
P.S. I’ve selected the writing challenge to edit for my homework and the parts I’ve added or edited are in blue.
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Dear Beth,
Thank you for the biscuit-oclaty lesson! 🍪🍨🍩🎂🍰🧁🍫
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The three-legged cat catapulted carelessly through Carrie’s Compulsory Cordial shop’s opaque carrier window， picking pretty pepper flowers passing through the prickled gate ringed with purple pansies and potatoes. Periwinkle the Parrot popped on Carrie’s pimples prying all the pampered way.
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Summary for Lesson 8
In today’s lesson we completed our mock exam based on our writing challenges course, which encouraged the students to complete pieces of writing with various constraints and ingredients that needed to be included. The class began with some metaphor work, with the class showing off their skills at using figurative language. We then moved on to the exam itself which consisted of two writing challenges- one fiction, one non-fiction. Well done everyone for today’s mock! It has been a pleasure to see each one of you grow and develop every week in your writing, becoming more and more confident and finding your own unique voices. You all worked very diligently today, and were all wonderfully hard-working and passionate about your writing. Brilliant work everyone, I really look forward to reading your mocks and hope you’ve enjoyed our most recent course! See you for the summer one 🙂
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Good Luck for your exam!
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GOOD LUCK TO
🍀 Beth 🍀
on her exams
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Dear Beth,
Please kindly find my mock exam attached below. Sorry for not being able to get it in straight away.
Kind regards,
Yunshu
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Hi Beth,
This is my homework from last week. I will upload the mock later. Good luck for your exam!❤
Yichen
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BTW good luck with your exams. I really do hope you can soon lift the pressure of revision off your shoulders. You’ve been a really good teacher :), thanks for the lesson.
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Mock Test! 📜
Good luck for your exam, although it is kinda annoying that you don’t need to do any more exams while I haven’t even done my 11+ and have a whole two decades of exams ahead! I hope you will get top!⭐😀
I really loved you lessons!❤ You made them so interesting and fun and clear – I kind of get Mrs Dalloway now!
Yichen
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Hi Beth,
Please could you mark my homework from lesson 7.
Good luck for your exams again!💗You are a wonderful teacher!
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Hi Yichen,
I can’t see an upload from you on lesson 7, but if you attach your work as a reply here I can mark it ASAP 🙂 Thank you again for your kind wishes! -
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