1. Week 3 Last Week Valentine Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Creative Writing January 2012

2. Previously …. E is an important letter We are looking for structure We are looking for discipline Poetry can be many different things An A4 page written on folded and passed on can be surprising Martian’s don’t understand what’s going on at all It’s all about perspective Keeping handwritten drafts is a good idea Previously

3. Choose a poem from one of the books, study it carefully for 10 minutes What does it mean to you, why? Read the poem to your partner and discuss Use a line or the title as a prompt for a 12 line poem of your own. The subject can be anything and for children or adults.

4. What’s a Poem?

5. ‘ A whisper, a shout, thoughts turned inside out’ Charles Ghigna American Children’s Poet

6. ‘ Valentine’ Juliet Stevenson Reads Carol Ann Duffy

7. ‘ Valentine’ Juliet Stevenson Reads Carol Ann Duffy

8. One Object

9. Postcard

10. Fairytale

11. From the postcard free-writing, take a word or sentence and Use it as a prompt for a poem, short piece of writing or whatever comes out, spend around 10 minutes doing this.

12. From the Fairytale drawing and title write the first line of a story

13. Homework Write your life story as a 250 word News Report Use Free Writing as a starting point If you want a challenge write it ; Day 1 - Listening to speech based radio Day 2 - Classical Day 3 - Pop. www.swindonwriters.wordpress.com www.swindonpoetryopenmic.blogspot.com http://swindonwriterscafe.blogspot.com/