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Elements of a Story

What things have we talked about so far...

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Writing Tools

What else does writing do, what is it for, why do we write?

What can you put in your writing, how important is it?

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Mindmaps

Supermap:https://app.mindmup.com/map/new/1582766206612

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Imagery

  • Descriptive language
  • Used in writing
  • Think of the 5+ senses
    • Sight - visual
    • Sound - audio
    • Smell - olfactory
    • Taste - gastric
    • Touch - tactile
      • Sense of movement - kinesthetic
      • Sense of feeling - emotional

Class definition

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Imagery -

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Descriptive Language Listening

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Open to a new piece of paper (any kind) in your notebook and write your name

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  • Can you figure out the picture just from listening to my language? As I describe what I’m looking at, try to imagine the picture in your mind and try to draw it.

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Imagery in Poetry - List Poems

  1. Choose a topic and think of a single word or short phrase
  2. On the next line, write a word or short phrase related to the word above it
  3. Repeat step 2 as many times as needed
  4. End the poem with the same word you started with

Tips:

  • Use language from your imagery word bank
  • If you want to use a word that doesn’t relate to the one above it, what word could you put in between?

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Teacher Samples (Mr. Walsh’s Poems)

Life Journey You Would've Never Expected

Bones

Fossiles

Giants

Alive

Dead

Tragic

Enlightening

Museum

Preservation

Garden

Transient

Collecting

Information

Data

Food

Bones

Understanding

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Blue whale skeleton from Beaty Museum of Biodiversity at UBC

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Teacher Samples (Mr. Walsh’s Poems)

Guerilla garden to the side of the Neville Scarfe building at UBC

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A guerilla garden is a place where people plant things without the legal authority to do so.

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At certain times of the year, various herbs, vegetables, and edible flowers have been planted and grown here.

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Teacher Samples (Mr. Walsh’s Poems)

Things Taking Turns

This narrow garden bed

Thought to be close to dead

The opposite should be said

At least till the healers have fled

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This little patch of dirt

Pushed to the side for work

As passers by neglect the earth

And simply continue to shirk

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All of our calling with

politicians promising

And teenagers hearkening

while also admonishing

These patches grow on

despite all of our conquering

Confirming our desire and

commitment to prospering

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Permaculture, we’re not qualified to remove it

Instead we can strive to nurture, sooth, and improve it

We fight for permanent culture using guerilla tactics

And through this we can finally emphasise what a fact is

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Our aforementioned guerilla tactics

Have gone from simply hostile to fully drastic

We’re out here throwing a continuous mass fit

To keep the ourselves from replacing the sea with plastic

To keep the ground from cracking open turning us pyroclastic�

What’s under our feet should be for what’s underneath

Things decaying, not staying but turning to what we eat

We grow up and then go down again but that’s not defeat

Just cause our folks are in the ground don’t mean we can’t speak our peace

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And what’s above us constitutes

more than the light and the heaven

It contains all that we need to

maintain life for our brethren

We’re all breathing the same air that

has been breathed for millennia

Now it’s filled with particles

making it hotter and heavier

So if we look at our tops and then we look at below

We then realize we haven’t got a clue where we’ll go

If you believe we all get graded by someone we don’t know

Let’s hope that planetary squandering’s worth more than zero