23 October 2021
Posted by Beth McKeeman
Lists, lists and more lists
Junior Writers Number - 8
Young Writers Number - 10
When do you write lists? Maybe when you go out shopping, when you’re planning a party, when you’re coming up with book title ideas. I’ve got a list for the register of all our writers but the list I’m most excited about at the moment is my list for Santa.
Whatever you might use your list for, they can be a great basis for poetry.
In Junior Writers we picked one of these types of list and made a poem of it by adding adjectives, emotion, alliteration and all that good stuff to each line.
Further to this we added two more list poems, a list of where, when, how, what ‘I Read’ followed by a mish-mash of collectables. A large number of us collect stones, so if anyone has any interesting stone facts they want to share this is the group to do it in. There were also the traditional trading cards of a whole variety (Pokemon, Disney, Lego), coins, books and stamps also made an appearance.
In this anti-pea group, I will now provide a list of the words we learned.
Eloquent: well spoken
Succotash: A vegetable dish
Sapid: having a strong, pleasant taste
Periwinkle: A flower and shade of blue
With the Young Writers, we also set about listing things. Not to spoil the amazing TED talk by Sarah Kay - If I should have a daughter, which we watched and I highly encouraged you to watch to - but for the sake of this blog I will distill down to the main point we focused on. List 10 things you know to be true.
In her final spoken word poem - a type of poetry we will look further into after the half term break - Sarah Kay made an emotional impact on us, connecting history to her life. Something that we might think on over the half term is how historical events have repercussions on our own lives and how we can weave these into words and create our own impacts.
We rounded out the session by writing a poem entitled My Heart…. Kim Addonizio wrote about Mississippi, placing her heart there with specifics. Christina Rossetti and Helen Woods inspired by Rossetti’s poem A Birthday wrote lists of what the heart is or is like. We had the choice which we wanted to style our lists after.
To end now, I’ll add to my previous list.
Vair: fur obtained from a variety of red squirrel
Bea's list poems
Belle's list poems
Archive
Junior & Young Writers Week 3: Return From The Magical World
Junior & Young Writers Week 2: African Mythology
Problems, Problems, Problems...
Cautionary Tales & Christmassy Opening Lines
You've Gotta Have Pace, Pace, Pace
Junior & Young Writers Week 1: Alien Encounters
Junior & Young Writers: Week 5 - Play on Words Pt. 2
Junior & Young Writers: Week 11 - end of term showcase [build a bard workshop]
Junior & Young Writers: Week 10 - Greek Theatre - chorus stories
Junior & Young Writers: Week 9 - Greek Origin Stories - Spring
Rubber Ducks & Writing Festivals
Junior & Young Writers: Week 7 - Greek Hero Stories [the 12 labours of Hercules]
Junior & Young Writers: Week 12 [Wild Words] - Stuff & Things
Junior & Young Writers: Week 11 [Wild Words] - World Building 2
Junior & Young Writers: Week 10 [Wild Words] - World Building
Junior & Young Writers: Week 9 [Wild Words] - Mystery & Choose Your Own Adventure
Junior & Young Writers: Week 8 [Wild Words] - Spooky Sequels & Potion Poems
Junior & Young Writers – Week 10 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Final Showcase
Junior & Young Writers – Week 9 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Editing & Performance Tips
Junior & Young Writers – Week 8 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Cuteness
Time goes on by Tavinder Kaur New
Junior & Young Writers – Week 7 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Natural Solutions
Junior & Young Writers – Week 6 (Writers’ Inspiration) – The Language of Fruit and Veg
Junior & Young Writers – Week 5 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Adventures In Space
Tinklebobs and Bedraggled Angles
Junior & Young Writers – Week 4 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Our Environment
Fortune Tellers & Future Letters
Junior & Young Writers – Week 3 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Home
Young Writers - Week 10 (The Art of Writing) – Final Week Showcase
Junior Writers - Week 10 (The Art of Writing) – Final Week Showcase
Young Writers – Week 9 (The Art of Writing) – Choose Your Own Adventure
Junior Writers – Week 9 (The Art of Writing) – Choose Your Own Adventure
Young Writers – Week 8 (The Art of Writing) – Sequel Stories
Junior Writers – Week 8 (The Art of Writing) – Sequel Stories
Young Writers – Week 7 (The Art of Writing) – Picture Prompts
Junior Writers – Week 7 (The Art of Writing) – Picture Prompts
Young Writers - Week 6 (The Art of Writing) - Script-writing & Dialogue
Junior Writers - Week 6 (The Art of Writing) - Script-writing & Dialogue
Junior Writers – Week 5 (The Art of Writing) – Poetry
Young Writers - Week 5 (The Art of Writing) - Poetry Potions
Edward The Martyr - A Competition!
Mood Boards and Postcards from Space
Young Writers - Week 3 (The Art of Writing) - PLOT
Junior Writers - Week 3 (The Art of Writing) - PLOT
Moomin Stories and Hollywood Pitches
Young Writers - Week 2 (The Art of Writing) - Genre & Setting
Junior Writers - Week 2 (The Art of Writing) - Genre & Setting
Prompts, Dialogues, and Cliché
Story Structure Part One: Exposition and Beyond...
Young Writers - Week 1 (The Art of Writing) - Character
Young Writers - week 4 - Nature Writing [animals & wildlife]
Junior Writers - week 4 - Nature Writing [animals & wildlife]
Young Writers - week 3 - Nature Writing [trees/plants/flowers]
Junior Writers - week 3 - Nature Writing [trees/plants/flowers]
Young Writers - week 2 - 'fractured fairy tales'
Junior Writers - week 2 - 'fractured fairy tales'
