Day 2!
My time with Rob E. Boley
Today we read an excerpt from Tom Brown's Field Guide: Nature Observation and Tracking by Tom Brown. It was about noticing the little details about nature and how we miss out on them when we don't look as closely. We had a guest speaker today, Rob Boley. He is an author who taught us about writing techniques. We played a game in which we were given a magazine page and were asked to pick three a random word and get the two words after it so we had three words in total. Then we were asked to write a Haiku by using those three words as the first words of the line. A haiku is a 3 line poem. The lines have 5-7-5 syllables respectively. The challenge in this game for me was I didn't know what to write the Haiku about since we weren't given a specific topic. The haiku I came up with was:
My time with Rob E. Boley
Today we read an excerpt from Tom Brown's Field Guide: Nature Observation and Tracking by Tom Brown. It was about noticing the little details about nature and how we miss out on them when we don't look as closely. We had a guest speaker today, Rob Boley. He is an author who taught us about writing techniques. We played a game in which we were given a magazine page and were asked to pick three a random word and get the two words after it so we had three words in total. Then we were asked to write a Haiku by using those three words as the first words of the line. A haiku is a 3 line poem. The lines have 5-7-5 syllables respectively. The challenge in this game for me was I didn't know what to write the Haiku about since we weren't given a specific topic. The haiku I came up with was:
Arc of a rainbow
few feet above the mountains
a gift of nature
another activity that we did was similar to the one with the Haiku but we had to write a dialogue instead. We were to chose 10 words in a row (or a sentence) and create a dialogue using those words as the first words for each sentence. The dialogue I came up with was:
-An institution?
-Institution for the handicapped
-In here?
-which is the best place for it
-regular people will be coming here everyday
-withdrawal from their daily life will help them
-from their daily life?
-the life at work and school
-investing in school and work is a good thing.
-Capital letters- NO!
I really enjoyed writing the Haiku more than the dialogue. I thought it was really cool that you could make a haiku using any three words.
The Delco Park!(:
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