Transcript poetry-writing-challenges1

25 minutes
250 words
You have just been discriminated
against. Write an article in which
you argue discrimination is still
rife in District Six.
Words and Ideas from
Nothing’s Changed:
‘cans trodden on’
‘No sign says it is:
But we know where we
belong’
‘guards at the gatepost’
‘plastic table top’
‘Nothing’s Changed’
Adverbs
Compound
sentence
Simile
One word
sentence
Repetition
Semi-colon
INCLUDE:
INDIGNANT
(The feeling or
showing of anger
or annoyance at
what is perceived
as unfair
treatment)
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technical accuracy
• Remember to
paragraph your
work.
• Use full stops and
capital letters.
• Try to use
ambitious
vocabulary.
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250 words
You are in a plane.
Describe the view.
Words and Ideas from
Stewart Island:
‘True: there was a fine
bay’
‘I had already decided to
leave this country’
‘But look at all this
beauty’
‘a mad seagull jetted
down’
Ambitious
adjectives
A sentence
containing a
list
Personification
A question
mark
A sentence
beginning with
an –ing word
INCLUDE:
PICTURESQUE
(A visually attractive
place or building,
especially in a quaint
or charming way)
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accuracy
• Remember to
paragraph your work.
• Use full stops and
capital letters.
• Try to use ambitious
vocabulary.
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You receive the gift of a sari
which reminds you of home.
Describe how you feel.
Words and Ideas from
Presents from my aunt in
Pakistan:
‘glistening like an orange split
open’
‘I could never be as lovely as
those clothes’
‘My salwar kameez didn’t
impress the schoolfriend’
‘of no fixed nationality’
‘My costume clung to me’
Nouns
relating to
culture
A complex
sentence
Metaphor
Ellipsis
A sentence
beginning
with a
preposition
INCLUDE:
INCONGROUS
(lacking in harmony,
incompatible)
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accuracy
• Remember to
paragraph your
work.
• Use full stops and
capital letters.
• Try to use ambitious
vocabulary.
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250 words
You have been caught in a hurricane
in England. Write a letter to your
family back in the Caribbean
informing them of this.
Words and Ideas from
Hurricane Hits England:
‘It took a hurricane to bring her
closer to the landscape.’
‘Fearful and reassuring’
‘Tell me why you visit an
English coast?’
‘I am aligning myself to you’
‘That the earth is the earth is
the earth’
Dramatic
verbs
A compound
sentence
Alliteration
A colon to
introduce a
list
A sentence
beginning with
a connective
INCLUDE:
NEFARIOUS
(Extremely wicked or
villainous)
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accuracy
• Remember to
paragraph your work.
• Use full stops and
capital letters.
• Try to use ambitious
vocabulary.
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You are a travel journalist. Write
a travelogue on your visit to
London for a magazine.
Words and Ideas from London:
‘I wander thro’ each charter’d
street’
‘And mark in every face I meet
/ Marks of weakness, marks of
woe.’
‘The mind-forg’d manacles I
hear’
‘Every black’ning Church
appals’
Adjectives
An emphatic
sentence
Sibilance
An
exclamation
mark
A sentence
beginning with
a simile
INCLUDE:
DISENCHANTED
(Disappointed by
something
previously respected
or admired)
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accuracy
• Remember to
paragraph your work.
• Use full stops and
capital letters.
• Try to use ambitious
vocabulary.
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Metaphor
You have just visited Westminster
Bridge. Write a persuasive
speech encouraging others to
visit.
Complex
sentence
Words and Ideas from
Composed Upon Westminster
Bridge:
‘Earth has not anything to show
more fair’
‘This City now doth, like a
garment, wear / The beauty of
the morning.’
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so
deep!
‘the very houses seem asleep’
Alliteration
A sentence
beginning with
an adverb
Commas in a
drop in clause
INCLUDE:
ENDEARING
(A likeable quality)
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technical accuracy
• Remember to
paragraph your
work.
• Use full stops and
capital letters.
• Try to use
ambitious
vocabulary.
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You are a writer. Write a review
of the most recent holiday you
have been on.
Words and Ideas from Postcards
from a Travel Snob
‘This place is not a holiday resort
with karoke nights and pints of
beer’
‘not like your seaside-townconsumer hell’
‘I’m not your sun-and-sangria-twoweeks-small-minded-philistine’
‘When you’re as multi-cultural as
me’
Adverbs
A declarative
sentence
An
exclamation
mark
Personal
pronouns
An anecdote
INCLUDE:
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accuracy
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paragraph your work.
• Use full stops and
capital letters.
• Try to use ambitious
vocabulary.
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Write a letter to your lost loved one
explaining how you feel upon
returning to what was you favourite
place
Words and Ideas from Absence
‘Nothing was changed’
‘There was no sign that
anything had ended’
‘Surely in these pleasures
there could not be a pain to
bear’
‘It was because the place was
the same that made your
absence seem a savage force’
Nouns
Simile
A simple
sentence
Speech
marks
An
exclamatory
sentence
INCLUDE:
MELANCHOLY
(a feeling of pensive
sadness)
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accuracy
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paragraph your work.
• Use full stops and
capital letters.
• Try to use ambitious
vocabulary.
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You are sat on the park
bench. Describe the
autumnal scene.
Words and Ideas from To
Autumn:
‘Seasons of mists and mellow
fruitfulness’
‘Close bosom-friend of the
maturing sun’
‘And fill all fruit with ripeness
to the core’
‘Until they think warm days
will never cease’
Personification
An
interrogative
sentence
Sibilance
Ellipsis
A sentence
beginning
with an –ed
word
INCLUDE:
FORTITUDE
(Courage in pain or
adversity)
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accuracy
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paragraph your work.
• Use full stops and
capital letters.
• Try to use ambitious
vocabulary.
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You work for a train company.
Write a report advising on how
to improve the station.
Words and Ideas from
Adlestrop:
‘The steam hissed’
‘No one left and no one came
on the bare platform’
‘And willows, willow-herb, and
grass’
‘And for that minute a
blackbird sang’
‘What I saw – was Adlestrop’
Verbs
A simple
sentence
A fact
An
imperative
A colon to
introduce
a list
INCLUDE:
ENHANCEMENTS
(An increase or
improvement in
quality)
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accuracy
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paragraph your work.
• Use full stops and
capital letters.
• Try to use ambitious
vocabulary.
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Write a newspaper report
informing the readers about the
conditions of the marshland in
Romney.
Words and Ideas from In Romney
Marsh:
‘As I went down to Dymchurch
Wall’
‘A veil of purple vapour flowed’
‘I saw above the Downs’ low crest
/ The crimson brands of sunset
fall’
‘The stars in one great shower
came down; / Shrill blew the
wind; and shrill the wire / Rang
out from Hythe to Romney town’
Adjectives
Metaphor
An adverbial
start
A cluster of
three
Personal
pronouns
A one word
sentence
INCLUDE:
MEANDERED
(Wandered at
random)
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work.
• Use full stops and
capital letters.
• Try to use
ambitious
vocabulary.
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Write a diary entry reflecting
upon your return to ‘where
the picnic was’
Words and Ideas from
Where the picnic was
‘Where we made the fire’
‘Now a cold wind blows’
‘Yes, I am here / Just as last
year’
‘Up hither, the same / As when
we four came’
‘And one – has shut her eyes /
for evermore.
Nouns
Imperatives
Simile
Speech
marks
A sentence
starting with
a word
ending in ing
INCLUDE:
REMINISCIENT
(Tending to remind
one of something)
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• Use full stops and
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Write a monologue in which you aim
to convince someone that you have
really been down to the beach even
though you’ve never seen it with your
own eyes.
Words and Ideas from ‘I
Started Early – Took my Dog’
‘But no Man moved Me – till the
Tide / Went past my simple
Shoe’
‘And made as He would eat me
up –’
‘And He – He followed – close
behind’
And bowing – with a Mighty look
- / At me – The Sea withdrew’
Verbs
An
interrogative
sentence
Personification
A semi-colon to
join two related
clauses
A sentence
starting with a
word ending in
-ly
INCLUDE:
DELUSIONAL
(To have a faulty
judgement)
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work.
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Write a letter to a friend,
explaining to them how much
you miss home and why.
Words and Ideas from Home
Thoughts from Abroad
‘Oh, to be in England / Now that
April’s there’
‘While the chaffinch sings on the
orchard bough / In England –
now!’
‘And though the fields look
rough with hoary dew / All will
be gay when noontide wakes
anew / The buttercups, the little
children’s dower / - Far brighter
than this gaudy melon-flower!’
Adverbs
A declarative
sentence
Alliteration
A colon to
introduce a
list
A sentence
starting with
a preposition
INCLUDE:
YEARNING
(A feeling of intense
longing for
something)
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accuracy
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paragraph your work.
• Use full stops and
capital letters.
• Try to use ambitious
vocabulary.
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250 words
Write a review of your in-flight
experience whilst travelling with
this airline.
Words and Ideas from First
Flight:
‘A sudden swiftness, earth
slithers / Off at an angle’
‘Familiar England, motorways,
reservoir, / Building sites’
‘My last trip was Beijing’
‘At this height nothing lives.
Too cold. Too near the sun.’
‘Plane moves. I don’t like the
feel of it.’
Adjectives
A one word
sentence
Sibilance
A question
mark
A sentence
starting
with a
connective
INCLUDE:
DISQUIETITUDE
(A state of
uneasiness or
anxiety)
Reminder for technical
accuracy
• Remember to
paragraph your work.
• Use full stops and
capital letters.
• Try to use ambitious
vocabulary.