In today’s lesson, students were considering the technique of “showing, not telling.” Writers use this technique to show their characters through their actions, rather than explicitly describing them to the reader. This way, the reader can create an image of the character in their head. Keesha and Emilie both choose to portray different characters during today’s writing task. Keesha opted for the rather nasty Mrs. Grelch,… Read More
Writing the beginning of the story is often the hardest part of the journey. This P2 student of mine, Joanna Tam, did an outstanding job in foreshadowing what is going to happen in her story. She showed skillful control of the uncovering of the plot, creating suspense without laying all the facts in plain sight. One sunny day, Amy woke up nervously because she had forgotten to do… Read More
The work I want to share today is by a P2 student, Katelyn Yiu, who attended my Love to Write class. In the lesson we had been learning about similes, and making comparisons using the structure “as… as…” I was blown away by the piece of writing Katelyn completed for homework – she incorporated everything that we had learned and more, in a very skilful… Read More
In my Friday Critical Reading and Writing Level 4 classes, we have been considering the question “What is a poem?” recently. This has led us to explore what elements make up (or don’t make up) a poem, and how we can decide what is poem and prose. Sometimes the answer isn’t so clear cut, but students have shown a remarkable perseverance in tackling this often difficult question. Read More
