15 April 2015

Record of meeting 15 April 2015

The players

Wendy, David R, Helene, David C, Lyn, Geoff, Leonie, Pauline, Elizabeth


Words of the day

Engross = enthralled or be captured by

Copious = plentiful

Persiflage = frivolous talk

Esculent = good food

Stumblebum = inept, clumsy, awkward person

Proclivity = habitual

Sonata = piece of music in several movements for one instrument with or without piano



Palaver = idle talk, time wasting fuss


Stories from words of the day

We created stories on the topics The string quartet, I dream of a piano at home, I couldn’t play, Spilled soup, The Itty bitty holiday story, No frivolous stumblebums here, Visitors interrupt homework, Conversation and food, and the audience.


Reading of homework

Only a few stories today but they were well written - Good vibrations, Bad taste in women, The devious wife, Tangled sheets, Drama in the library and the Book deal.



Exercises

1. We used the phrase “She hurried down the pathway through the gate” to create stories of rainy weather, storms, the vista of daffodils under blue sky, thunder before rain, an umbrella too small, gates to hell in a media circus, black cockatoos squawking and the sound of a heartbeat.

2. We wrote stories and poems on the emotion “Shame” and I remember that hairstyle and wrote about -Telling the truth, A fly blown hairstyle, The blue organza dress, No unseemly conduct here, A dishonest teacher, Bullying and Sorry old man – a funny poem from Wendy.


Homework


Satisfaction