Writing Workshop!

27 Novembro 2017, 12:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, students did the following exercises in the Writing Workshop:

  1. Free Writing
    • For five minutes, students had to write non-stop. 
    • They couldn't take their pen off the paper and they couldn't stop writing until the bell went off. 
    • When they didn't know what to write, they just kept writing the last word they had written over and over again until new words or sentences came to mind. 
      • It didn't matter how often they wrote the word over and over again. 
    • If they made a mistake, they were not allowed to scratch it out – they had to keep writing. 
    • They could write about anything. 
    • What they wrote about didn't have to make sense – it could be abstract. 
    • No one saw this writing (not even the teacher) – it was just for them. 
    • There was no right or wrong in this exercise.
  2. Free Writing - Part 2
    • The students repeated the previous exercise with the following differences:
      • it lasted for 7 minutes;
      • they had to start the text using a word, sentence or extract from the previous exercise.
  3. Focused Writing
    • They had 20 minutes to write a: 
      • short story OR 
      • diary entry OR 
      • memoir OR 
      • letter OR 
      • abstract piece

        …based on one or more of the 8 images displayed in the PowerPoint.

  4. Free Writing to Music
    • Students wrote a piece to Mozart's Lacrimosa. 
    • It could be anything: 
      • A piece of abstract writing; 
      • A poem; 
      • A short story; 
      • A (love or hate) letter; 
      • Etc….