Houses

1.  Choose a house. It can be one you've known, or you can choose one from a picture. Describe it - imagine what kind of person might live in it. What do you think it would be like to live there? It's going to be the setting for a story. See pictures below for some examples.

2.  You have quite a while before the next lesson, so I would urge you to use it to do some covert observation - in a cafe, on the street, anywhere. Pick on a person and observe them; describe them, search for clues so you can imagine what their lives are like. (But be discreet!) Don't stop at one - make a habit of it! Carry a notebook, so that (obviously) you can make notes.

Character starters - for HW 10/2/22

 Here are three prompts - they tell you a little bit about a character, and you are invited to use them as a basis for building a character. We did the first one in class, but I've included it in case Sally wants to do that one as well.

Use them as a starting point to explore the character - why are they like this? What might have made them so?

- 'She had a knack for getting to the bottom of things...'

- 'He had seen too much. It was written on his face...'

- 'She was thin, neat and brisk. She seemed absent of any colour - she was just grey...'

One Day

 Here is a link to a blog post by author Liz Kessler, who writes about a day which utterly changed - in fact saved - the lives of her father and his family - do have a look at it. Her family was Jewish, and they were living in Vienna in the 1930s, when, during a trip on a steamboat on the Danube, they had a chance encounter with an English couple...

Write a piece of your own, entitled 'One Day', about a day which significantly changes things for the narrator. It can be fact or fiction.