A big Hollywood producer wanted my students' input on her next project.A big Hollywood Hollywood. 1 Community within the city of Los Angeles, S Calif., on the slopes of the Santa Monica Mts.; inc. 1903, consolidated with Los Angeles 1910. producer wanted my students' input on her next project. At least that's what we pretended pre·tend·ed adj. 1. Not genuine or sincere; feigned: a pretended interest in the proceedings. 2. Supposed; alleged: the pretended heir to the throne. after reading a play this year. I printed up an e-mail from the "producer" on oak-tag and presented it to the class. The producer was turning the play we'd we'd 1. Contraction of we had. 2. Contraction of we should. 3. Contraction of we would. we'd have ~would read into a movie and wanted character descriptions in order to pick the right actors and actresses. First we talked about how to describe characters. Then each student wrote a paragraph detailing the ideal characteristics for a particular character. A few minutes later, I pretended to hear my cell phone ringing. I picked it up and pretended it was the producer. We put her "on speaker" and the class read their descriptions out loud. I pretended to be the only one to hear her and reiterated her positive feedback, pointing out good writing techniques The literature on journalling and creative writing has generated various writing techniques to encourage self-discovery and self-expression for those who may wish to expand their techniques or address issues of writer's block. and descriptives. It was such a memorable lesson.--Allison Weisel, via e-mail |
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