My Shoes

Today we did a visualisation about what a day in the life of our shoes might be like.

We talked about 'personifcation' - where we take an inanimate object and give it human like qualities. We had to imagine what our shoes might think as say as they went through their daily routine of being our shoes.

We had to think about where they live and what it is like in there

• How they feel about being on our feet
• Where they have to walk during the day
• What things they might see or do
• What things they might love/hate doing
• How they might feel about other shoes
• and as many other things as we could think of

Our task between now and our next session is to 'notice' our shoes as we go about our day. As we are doing things we have to note them down in our journal and think about what our shoes might be thinking as they do them.

When we come together again we are going to use all of the notes that we have made in our journal, and any drawings we have made as the basis of our plan for a piece of narrative writing.

Stage 2 - Writing:
Today we talked about some of things that we have been 'noticing' about our shoes, and especially the things that we have noted down in our journals.

We discussed what sort of personality our shoe might have; grumpy, friendly, laid back, up-tight etc

We talked about how we might begin our writing in order to 'hook our reader'.

Using our notes in our journal we began to write our introduction. Some people began by telling their reader that the character telling the story was a shoe, and others left it until further down the page before 'revealing' the identity of the voice to their reader.

We used a thesaurus as we wrote so that we could find the 'very best word' to use in our sentence. We talked about making good choices for words, rather than using too many or too few.

e.g. the beautiful, sweet smelling, pretty rose....
the lovely, fragrant rose.....

The dirty, stinky, smelling sock.....
The filthy, putrid sock....

We each tried to change two of more words within out writing by using the thesaurus.