OK, so as part of your course this year, I've decided that you all need to be exposed to different styles and types of writing to gain a greater understanding of how language can be used intelligently and creatively.
Now, it's unrealistic if I give you extra novels to read each week on top of your Year 12 workload, so each Friday, I'll publish a link to a short story, or article, or blog, or whatever really. Just something that is short and sweet (compared to a whole book anyway) that will expose you to different writing styles and ideas.
You don't have to write a response to these pieces of writing in class, or get assessed on it, but if there's something such as a phrase, or a even a word, or concept that you really like in the piece of writing write it up as a new post on your own blog. It might be an idea that you want to use for your own creative story/article, it might be a personal response to what the piece of writing was about, it might be a sentence or two about what you thought of the piece of writing, or it might just be the definition of a cool sounding word the piece of writing used that you want to remember to use in one of your upcoming SACs.
Whatever it might be, just add a short and sweet post to your blog and as the year progresses, you'll have a random collection of ideas, thoughts, writings, etc. that you can reflect on and use to develop and improve your own writing. You're not always going to like the story/article necessarily, but simply reading and understanding it, will help you develop and improve your own skills and awareness of the world around you.
Eventually, I'd like you to start writing paragraphs, short stories, little ideas, etc. to your blog as well, but let's just start off with reading a story.
Your first story for the year is called "Shooting Tuvia" by a quirky Israeli author named Etgar Keret. It's only six and a bit pages long, so should only take you about ten minutes or so to read.
Click here to read it, or right-click on the link and choose "Save Link As..." or whatever it says similar, to save it to your computer/USB Drive.
I look forward to reading your posts in response.
Cheers,
Hally
i liked that story. i found it magical how the dog always returned even after being shot.one word i found interesting was impersonate which means to pretend to be or play part of something.
ReplyDeleteExcellent work, Sharni. The first comment for the year. Glad you liked the story. I think Etgar Keret's pretty cool. We're going to read a few more of his stories throughout the year.
ReplyDeleteGood job with picking a word too. Maybe you could add the word and definition as a post on your own blog too, so you'll be easily able to find it when you want to use it in future writing.
The story was good. I love the quote "Go figure out a dog...fact is my sister fed him too and he hated her like hell"
ReplyDeleteI found the repetition of "I know, because my big brother told me" interesting as it emphasises the narrators childhood perspective.
I enjoyed the story.
ReplyDeleteI like the quote that said "It proved that everything Micky said about his not really loving me wasn't true. Because if the thing between Tuvia and me had just been about food, he wouldn't of come right back to me"
It shows that the dog and his owner had a strong bond
I enjoyed this story because no matter how much Tuvia suffered he always came back to his owner, even though he got one hell of a beating and even shot at the end.
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