Another Wednesday Another great class from Paul. Almost a full class with the exceptions of Ellen. I need my fellow blogger back.
Paul set a piece of work last week. this was to write about St Georges Market in Belfast. Jane and Eugene were unable to get to the Market but produced pieces of great quality in any event. i shall take each in turn.
Jane.
Jane wrote about the Christmas Continental Market which took place outside Belfast City Hall. Her piece captured the feel of the market with ,German sausage , a pig on a spit, and lavender from a French stall. All with the soft sounds of Christmas Carols in the background. it gave a real feel for the atmosphere.
Margo
Margo wrote about the Friday market and included some great scenes like the Chinese bartering with the fish mongers. The differing tastes available in the wide range of foods , listing all the available fresh fish although there had been storms all week. Margo also discussed the changing faces at the market. What at one time was a purely Belfast affair there are are now faces from all over Europe and beyond.
Christine
Christine's piece was hilarious she chose to contrast a trip to the market as a very young child with her trip on Saturday morning. Christine has a knack of capturing Belfast characters and their accents. She talked about newspaper in her school bag to carry home the bruised fruit. A scene of using a chamber pot behind the stall was pure Christine. I must persuade her to post this piece. it was Brilliant.
Eugene
Eugene wrote a piece of playing hurling in Belfast Falls Park. He described having cycled from North Belfast to do so with his Hurley and boots on his handle bars. Kids now are reluctant to use a bus never mind cycle anywhere.
Bernadette.
Bernadette had not been at the class last week but read a piece about a Spanish Square and the "beautiful people". She discussed how the square came to life at sunset with traders set up around the edge of the market. She discussed some of the people she could see in the square. A girl with deformed feet, a blind man tapping his way and Bernadette wondered if he could identify sounds that she could not. She described an elderly couple holding hands and still very much in love. These she said were the really beautiful people.
Pauls point today in class was to use the introduction to capture the readers attention. We discussed what Paul described as "Going from the panoramic to the particular" in Jonathon Rabans writing about the Mississippi, I even got the spelling right.
He also discussed a writer called William Least-Heat-Moon who wrote a book on travelling the back roads of America and people he met on his journey. There were some great lines
in the opening paragraph of the book "Blue Highways",The opening line is "Beware thoughts that come in the night" , " How to begin a beginning" .
This was followed by Paul Theroux who wrote "The old Patagonian Express" the opening few paragraphs took place on a commuter train. As he was setting off for Patagonia everyone else was going about their routine lives.
This weeks task is to write about a place we know well. The point is to pay attention to the opening paragraph.
Paul set a piece of work last week. this was to write about St Georges Market in Belfast. Jane and Eugene were unable to get to the Market but produced pieces of great quality in any event. i shall take each in turn.
Jane.
Jane wrote about the Christmas Continental Market which took place outside Belfast City Hall. Her piece captured the feel of the market with ,German sausage , a pig on a spit, and lavender from a French stall. All with the soft sounds of Christmas Carols in the background. it gave a real feel for the atmosphere.
Margo
Margo wrote about the Friday market and included some great scenes like the Chinese bartering with the fish mongers. The differing tastes available in the wide range of foods , listing all the available fresh fish although there had been storms all week. Margo also discussed the changing faces at the market. What at one time was a purely Belfast affair there are are now faces from all over Europe and beyond.
Christine
Christine's piece was hilarious she chose to contrast a trip to the market as a very young child with her trip on Saturday morning. Christine has a knack of capturing Belfast characters and their accents. She talked about newspaper in her school bag to carry home the bruised fruit. A scene of using a chamber pot behind the stall was pure Christine. I must persuade her to post this piece. it was Brilliant.
Eugene
Eugene wrote a piece of playing hurling in Belfast Falls Park. He described having cycled from North Belfast to do so with his Hurley and boots on his handle bars. Kids now are reluctant to use a bus never mind cycle anywhere.
Bernadette.
Bernadette had not been at the class last week but read a piece about a Spanish Square and the "beautiful people". She discussed how the square came to life at sunset with traders set up around the edge of the market. She discussed some of the people she could see in the square. A girl with deformed feet, a blind man tapping his way and Bernadette wondered if he could identify sounds that she could not. She described an elderly couple holding hands and still very much in love. These she said were the really beautiful people.
Pauls point today in class was to use the introduction to capture the readers attention. We discussed what Paul described as "Going from the panoramic to the particular" in Jonathon Rabans writing about the Mississippi, I even got the spelling right.
He also discussed a writer called William Least-Heat-Moon who wrote a book on travelling the back roads of America and people he met on his journey. There were some great lines
in the opening paragraph of the book "Blue Highways",The opening line is "Beware thoughts that come in the night" , " How to begin a beginning" .
This was followed by Paul Theroux who wrote "The old Patagonian Express" the opening few paragraphs took place on a commuter train. As he was setting off for Patagonia everyone else was going about their routine lives.
This weeks task is to write about a place we know well. The point is to pay attention to the opening paragraph.
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