I hope your week has got off to a magnificent start. Let’s hope that this week will be less tiring that all its predecessors. 😉
Today in class we started talking about Point of View and how writers use it to develop a sense of both an interior world of a character as well as how they are perceived by other characters. On Wednesday, we’ll look at a past paper and discuss its use of point of view and how to tackle a writing task that asks you to develop an alternative point of view yourself.
Point of View often “inhabits” the mind of a character and reports their observations and feelings about what they experience. As a warm up task to this week’s lesson content, I want you to make a list of words that replace “said” and words that replace “saw”. There are quite a few when you get started!
In the comments below, I want you to design a piece of gossip using the words from these lists. DO NOT use “said” or “saw”.
“Rudo attested that she observed Dani twerking at the CBC Valentine’s Day Dance.”
“Michelle claimed that Jess is also friends with sticks.”
“I witnessed Nobandile eat a piece of pizza she found on the floor.”
Go ahead, gossip.