12 February 2022
Posted by Beth McKeeman
Myself as... A Collaborative Poem
Junior - 12 Young - 9
Energetic is one word which could be used to sum up the Junior Writers this week as we broke off into groups to complete the collaborative poem we had started last time.
It’s on weeks like these that I don’t think I can accurately portray what happened in session because so much happened! Writing can be done with single minded focus, or it can be hours spent staring at a blank page, or it can be throwing ideas about in a chaotic whirlwind until you strike gold. That’s what this week was as we came up with what we’d like to put in our paper boats, how they’d sail, where from and to.
It was a messy generative session but at the end of it we had a complete poem, interwoven with different languages we collectively speak, ready to one day be displayed in MAST. So keep an eye out in the cafe in the coming months.
The Young Writers were a bit more laid back when Susmita presented us with a tome entitled This Is Me for us to fill. This massive book filled with blank pages courtesy of CAMHS will be with us for 3 weeks before going on a journey around Hampshire. Wherever it goes, young people will fill it in and eventually it will be part of 15 such books in an exhibition in September.
Thinking about the prompt of ‘this is me’ we started by making a list poem of song titles - a 5 song playlist of yourself.
This was followed up by ‘Myself as…’. We’d previously done this poem prompt at Hands On Humanity and still had some of our poems, which were all inspired by nature then, so our challenge this time was to be a different object or in Katie’s case, experience. Katie chose Myself as a Musical, the line about everyone having a story was particularly poignant for the first page of the book.
We were writing right up to the last moment in order to add Myself as a Raven from Shani, My Mind as a Melody from Amelia and Myself as a Sloth from Sofija.
I can’t wait to see what else we add to this book.
Writing 'Myself as...'
Filling in the first page of This Is Me
Creating the collaborative poem
Creating the collaborative poem
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'
