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Apr. 29th, 2006 05:38 pmToday I taught.
This morning was the first session of the world-building class. Some of the stuff we are working on is commercial-in-confidence, which is a first for me in a writing class. My students are taking to it like ducks to water and I had to almost throw them out of the classroom. When we are out of the quiet zone, you will hear detail, I promise. It is too exciting to keep secret for much longer, anyhow.
Technically I had an hour off in between classes, but it ended up being only fifteen minutes. One of my students gave me a lift home, though, so I am surprising alert for a flu-ridden Gillian who has taught all day and whose bus failed to arrive this morning. Lots of things went wrong till about 10.30, and then everything went right.
My second class is the 'Writing your family's history' and, as ever, my class has self selected for likeability. I gave them a hard time and lots of subject choice and writing exercises. One student gave me a lift home and when I said how quickly 2 1/2 hours had gone both sessions, "That wasn't 2 1/2 hours. Really?" But it was. In fact, given some of us started a bit early, it was rather more.
We spent an hour and a half of the time on my scent-writing exercise sequence. While we had a great deal of fun with cajaput and sassafras and petitgrain and various other essential oils, a lot of what we did will only really open up for the class later on in the course. Lots of embedded lessons, so lots of 'ah' moments ahead.
Next week the class is learning how stuff you find around the home can be important to a sense of family and used in writing family stories. They will bring in various objects and I will bring in various objects and we will do analysis and storytelling.
So now you know.
This morning was the first session of the world-building class. Some of the stuff we are working on is commercial-in-confidence, which is a first for me in a writing class. My students are taking to it like ducks to water and I had to almost throw them out of the classroom. When we are out of the quiet zone, you will hear detail, I promise. It is too exciting to keep secret for much longer, anyhow.
Technically I had an hour off in between classes, but it ended up being only fifteen minutes. One of my students gave me a lift home, though, so I am surprising alert for a flu-ridden Gillian who has taught all day and whose bus failed to arrive this morning. Lots of things went wrong till about 10.30, and then everything went right.
My second class is the 'Writing your family's history' and, as ever, my class has self selected for likeability. I gave them a hard time and lots of subject choice and writing exercises. One student gave me a lift home and when I said how quickly 2 1/2 hours had gone both sessions, "That wasn't 2 1/2 hours. Really?" But it was. In fact, given some of us started a bit early, it was rather more.
We spent an hour and a half of the time on my scent-writing exercise sequence. While we had a great deal of fun with cajaput and sassafras and petitgrain and various other essential oils, a lot of what we did will only really open up for the class later on in the course. Lots of embedded lessons, so lots of 'ah' moments ahead.
Next week the class is learning how stuff you find around the home can be important to a sense of family and used in writing family stories. They will bring in various objects and I will bring in various objects and we will do analysis and storytelling.
So now you know.