B.ED TESL SEM 08 (GROUP C) CES 1323 CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS GROUP 6

1. B.ED TESL SEM 08 (GROUP C) CES 1323 CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS GROUP 6 FARAHIYA ZALIKHA BT ZAKARIA 4071039301 NUR AMIRA BINTI ABU KASIM 4071039821 HAWA MARINI BINTI SALIM 4071039361 NUR KAMARIAH BINTI ABD RAJAK 4071039881 NUR FITRIYAH BINTI ASQALANY 4071039871 NURUL SYUHADA BINTI KHALID 4071039981

2. GrammarbyTony Hoagland

3. Maxine, back from a weekend with her boyfriend,smiles like a big cat and saysthat she's a conjugated verb.She's been doing the direct objectwith a second person pronoun named Phil,and when she walks into the room,everybody turns: some kind of light is coming from her head.Even the geraniums look curious,and the bees, if they were here, would buzzsuspiciously around her hair, lookingfor the door in her corona.We're all attracted to the perfumeof fermenting joy, we've all tried to start a fire,and one day maybe it will blaze up on its own.In the meantime, she is the one today among usmost able to bear the idea of her own beauty,and when we see it, what we do is natural:we take our burned handsout of our pockets,and clap.

4. Grammar

5. 1) Coordination Even the geraniums look curious,and the bees, if they were here, would buzz - and coordinates the phrase Even the geraniums look curious with the bees 2) Subordination Even the geraniums look curious, and the bees, if they were here, would buzz - Subordinate clause if they were here adds information to the main clause Even the geraniums look curious, and the bees, … would buzz

6. 3) Modifiers and the bees, if they were here, would buzzsuspiciously around her hair, - suspiciously serves as an adjective modifier that describes the noun bees 4) Case Maxine, back from a weekend with herboyfriend, - Maxine is as the subject and becomes her which is a possessive

7. 5) Agreement In the meantime, she isthe one today among us most able to bear the idea of herown beauty, - Singular verb is agrees with the singular subject she - Singular pronoun her agrees with the third person singular she

8. 6) Tense Simple Present Tense : and when she walksinto the room, - Subject she is doing the action walks at the time of speaking Simple Future Tense : and one day maybe it will blazeup on its own - Event that has not yet happened Present Perfect Tense : we've all triedto start a fire, (we have all tried) - Subject we have completed the action of trying

9. The Voice byRupert Brookes

10. Safe in the magic of my woodsI lay, and watched the dying light.Faint in the pale high solitudes,And washed with rain and veiled by night, Silver and blue and green were showing.And the dark woods grew darker still;And birds were hushed; and peace was growing;And quietness crept up the hill; And no wind was blowing… And I knewThat this was the hour of knowing,And the night and the woods and youWere one together, and I should findSoon in the silence the hidden keyOf all that had hurt and puzzled me –Why you were you, and the night was kind,And the woods were part of the heart of me.

11. And there I waited breathlessly,Alone; and slowly the holy three,The three that I loved, together grewOne, in the hour of knowing,Night, and the woods, and you – And suddenlyThere was an uproar in my woods, The noise of a fool in mock distress,Crashing and laughing and blindly going,Of ignorant feet and a swishing dress,And a Voice profaning the solitudes. The spell was broken, the key denied me,And at length your flat clear voice beside meMouthed cheerful clear flat platitudes. You came and quacked beside me in the wood.You said, "The view from here is very good!"You said, "It's nice to be alone a bit!"And, "How the days are drawing out!" you said.You said, "The sunset's pretty, isn't it?“ By God! I wish -- I wish that you were dead!

12. Punctuation

13. 1) Period I lay, and watched the dying light . - To end a declarative statement 2) Comma Faint in the pale high solitudes , and washed with rain and veiled by night. - To indicate a slight pause within a sentence - Used before conjunction and

14. 3) Semicolon And the dark woods grew darker still; and birds were hushed ;and peace was growing ; and quietness crept up the hill ; - To separate a series of long and complicated sentence 4) Apostrophe The sunset’s pretty, isn’t it? - For omission of a letter in the word. - sunset is → sunset’s - is not → isn’t

15. 5) Quotation mark “ The view from here is very good! ” - To show dialogue spoken in the poem 6) Question mark The sunset’s pretty, isn’t it ? - To indicate direct question 7) Exclamation point By God ! I wish – I wish that you were dead ! - To show strong emotion

16. 8) Dash Of all that had hurt and puzzled me – Why you were you, and the night was kind, - To indicate an interruption in thought 9) Ellipses And no wind was blowing … - To indicate a lack of continuity

17. Mechanics

18. 1) Capital And a Voice profaning the solitude. - To emphasize the word Voice 2) Numbers The three that I loved, together grew - Number ‘3’ is written out in one word and not written in numerals

19. Spelling

20. 1) Compound words There was an uproar in my woods, - up(higher position) + roar (deep sound) → uproar (a loud noise or disturbance) 2) Final silent ‘e’ And a Voice profaning the solitude. - profane → profaning - The final letter ‘e’ is omitted when suffix –ing is added

21. No Dialects Please by Merle Collins

22. In this competitiondey was looking for poetry of worthfor a writin that could wrap up a feelinan fling it back hardwith a captive power to choke de starsso dey say,'Send them to usbut NO DIALECTS PLEASE'We're British! Ay!Well ah laugh till me bouschet near dropIs not only dat ah tinkof de dialect of de Normans and de Saxonsdat combine an reformulateto create a language-electhow dis British eduction must really be narrow If it leave dem wid no knowledge of what dy own history is about is not only dat ah tinkbout de part of my storydat come from Liverpool in a big dirty white shipmarkAFRICAN SLAVES PLEASE!We're the British!

23. But as if datnat enough painfor a body to bearah tink bout de part on de plantations down dereWey dey so frighten o de powerin the deep spacesbehind our eatching facesdatdey shoutNO AFRICAN LANGUAGES PLEASE!It's against the law! Make me ha to goan start up a language o me owndat ah could share wid me people Den when we start to shoutbout a culture o we owna language o we owndem an de others dey leave to control us saySTOP THAT NONSENSE NOWWe're all British!Every time we lif we foot to do we own tingto fight we own fightdey tell us how British we British

24. an ah wonder if dey rememberdat in Trinidad in the thirtiesday jail Butlerwho dey say is their british citizenan accuse him ofHampering the war effortThen it wasFIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY, FOLKS!You're British! Ay! Ay!Ah wonder when it change toNO DIALECTS PLEASE!WE'RE British!Huh!To tink how still dey so duncean so frighten of we powerdatdey have to hide behind a languagethat we could wrap roun we little fingerin addition to we own!heavens o mercy!dat is duncenessoui!Ah wonder where is de bright British?

25. Diction

26. 1) Word choice Passive :Wey dey so frighten o de power (Where they were so frighten of the power) - To describe how the English men felt Active : Every time we lif we foot to do we own ting(Every time we lift our foot to do our own thing) - Telling something on behalf of the persona herself

27. 2) Denotation vs. Connotation Dey was looking for poetry of worth for a writin that could wrap upa feelin - Denotative meaning of wrap up : to cover something completely in paper or other material - Connotative meaning of wrap up : kind of captive power to affect feeling

28. 3) Jargon Of de dialect of de Normansand de Saxons - Saxons : Germanic people that conquered the southern England in 5th-6thcenturies - Old English which is an inflected language with Germanic vocabulary - Normans: People of mixed Frankish and Scandinavian who conquered English in 1066 - English is a hybrid language created out of the Saxonsand Normans - Saxons and Normans refer to the origins of English language

29. 4. Slang To tink how still dey so dunce Dat is duncenessoui! - dunce : Originally a name for followers of John Duns Scotus, a Scottish theologian. They were mocked by humanists as enemies of learning. The word dunceinformally existed by acquiring the negative implication - dunceness : It does not exist, created by the poet to serve its own effect to the poem

30. 5) Accents Make me ha to go an start up a language o meown dat ahcould share wid me people (Make me have to go and start up a language of my own that I could share with my people) - The poet writes using her Grenadian dialect - Writing out the words in the actual way she speaks - To suggest that she is a part of the persona in the poem