Inspiration

They say 'a picture paints a thousand words'. This is a wonderful inspiration if you have a picture in front of you but what happens if you do not have a picture? Create one in your head of something that you have learnt or know about. Things that we have learnt in other subjects can help us write. If you are able to then imagine a picture in your mind and recreate the imagine in words.

Others lives can give us inspiration too. It can be those that are close to us or others that we have learnt about. What about taken someone else's life and recreating it as your own? Have you thought of recreating their life in another situation or time in history? Is there someone out there that you would like to share with others?

Which ever way you decide to help stimulate your writing, remember we need 'to think outside the box'. Make your writing interesting and original but it must be believable. That does not mean that we must not write about sci-fi or fantasy. Look for a new way to present your ideas and let your imagination run wild.

Today you must complete a piece of writing with the title 'Freedom'. You need to write about 250 words and please remember to edit your work. Do not forget to plan first, Have fun!

Princess proved as premier

By Charles Henshaw

The kingdom of Keriville, tonight is rejoicing as they at last have a premier princess for their prince. Many other princesses had tried to win the hand of the prince but all proved to be fake until now.

Queen Jemima, who very protective of her son, only wanted him to marry someone of blue blood therefore a true princess. She devised a plan to test each girl to make sure she was real. When Prince Aragor met a new princess the queen would invite the princess to stay the night at the palace.

The princess was to sleep in a special room prepared by the queen herself. Each morning the queen would enquire after the health of the princess. Each morning the princesses replied that they had a wonderful sleep. Each morning the queen bid them farewell. That is until this morning.

When Princess Emmy was asked how her night had been, She was silent for a while and all of the court wondered what was wrong. Then to the surprise off all she announced she had a night’s sleep from hell. All the court was aghast that the princess had dared to complain about the bed but not the queen. She smiled and welcomed the girl into her family and said she would be a fine princess for the prince.

The court official on behalf of the queen announced to the press that the queen had made a bed for each princess which had 15 mattresses on top of one another. Between the very bottom and the next mattress she placed a pea. A true princess is so sensitive and soft that she would feel a pea through a stack of mattresses.

The queen immediately organised a big party to celebrate the upcoming wedding and the pea was given a place of honour planted in a flower pot for future generations to feed from it.



This may be a very old fairy tale but today it is big news in the local paper in Keriville. Today you are to choose a story that you know well which is a fairytale, legend or myth and present it as a newspaper report.
1. Keep your language formal
2. Give it a title
3, Write about 200 words
4. Make sure you proofread so that it has no errors in it

Martin Luther King Jnr.

Martin Luther King Jnr (MLK), like Rosa Parks, was a man of peace. He wanted to see change but he was only interested in doing it in a peaceful manner. Even though the police did not always use the same methods, and this meant loss of life, MLK continued to lead the people in non-violent demostrations.

On August 28, 1963 more than 200 000 people, mainly black, gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC to listen to MLK speak. The people were civil rights protesters who wanted to see change for the way the black people of America where being treated.

MLK's speech has become very famous and is known by 'I Have a Dream'. MLK is an important speaker of not only his time but also of our time and probably times to come. He shows clearly the the power of words can make a difference.

Today you will be studying MLK's speech.

The full written speech with a short video clip is at:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

Youtube has a bigger section of the speech at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk

You may either listen to the speech, read it or both. When you have done that copy the following questions into your blog post and answer them. Each question will need a statement answering the question, an explanation of the statement and an example if possible.

1. What was the dream that MLK had for the people?
2. Why was it significant that the speech was at the feet of Abraham Lincoln?
(Clue: What did Lincoln do for the black people?)
3. Complete the following line with somewhere you think freedom should ring
Let freedom ring from........
4. If you had a dream to change something in the world that was not right, what
would it be and why?