Purpose: To write freely and take ownership of my writing
Use your notebook to breathe in the world around you. You could write about:
- What amazes / surprises / angers you
- What you wonder about
- What you notice / what intrigues you
- Memories
- Lists
- Photos, articles, ticket stubs or artefacts
- Your own sketches, drawings or diagrams relating to our unit
- Quotes or inspiring passages from books or poems
Once you have gathered writing in your notebook, try the following ideas:
- reread to dig out the best material
- Experiment with new kinds of writing.
- Write about personal things – fears, nightmares or dreams
Remember these tips:
- Keep your notebook handy so that you can write at any place and time
- Pull your notebook out whenever you have a few minutes with nothing to do.
- The notebook you keep should reflect you.
- Writing can be fun. Your notebook is a place to enjoy writing.
Revision is more than just a way to fix a broken piece of writing.
It is also a way to honour a good piece and make it even better.
Here are some ideas to experiment with:
- Change the beginning: experiment with new sentence starters.
- Change the ending: try a surprising ending / the complete opposite of what you have written.
- Add a new section: Have you left out something important?
- Remove a section: A piece of writing is like a rose bush – it grows healthier after you prune the unnecessary parts.
- Change the genre – The story you are writing might make a great poem.
- Change the point of view: Try telling the story from a different perspective – rather than using “I’,
try writing it as “she”
- Change the tense: From past to present
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