15 January 2014

Record of meeting - 15 January 2014

  
Words of the day

Satanic = diabolical

Piccaninny = a small black child

Placate = appease, pacify, conciliate

Moratorium = legally authorised ban or delay, postponed

Sinecure = cushy job, paid job very little work

Sanguine = naturally cheerful, expecting things to go well

Canvases = more than one canvas

Symposium = drinking after a dinner party, a banquet, a series of contributions to a newspaper or conference

 
Stories from words of the day

In a short time we created beautiful stories from our words about The president, The Art Gallery, At the local pub, Did it cause too many tears, I’ve given up, The usual flourishes on canvases, The show did not open and Painting.

 
Reading of Homework

The knife incident from Garry, The toy koala from Helene, Men made of thunder from Terry, Swimming around Australia – pool by pool from Jo, We’ll be neighbours by Leonie, The decision from Elizabeth and Keeping my big sister quiet from Melissa.

 
Discussions and readings

We discussed the apostrophe and pronunciation of the words “Jervis” and “clerk”.  We also discussed Memories of childhood and Terry could remember when he was 2.5 years old and his younger brother came home from hospital.

Terry read - The car club poem and Jo read the feisty feminist story Farewell – I am free.

 
The colour experience

We completed a short exercise to describe our favourite colours in a rainbow of ideas. Helene – blue, Wendy – scary black, Terry – red, Jo – green, Leonie – it changes with my moods, Elizabeth – yellow daffodils, Melissa - Blurple why should I choose one when I love two, Cath – an unknown colour.

 
Homework

Write about what will be happening in your life in 5 years time