Joseph22 Turbocharged April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 what happen to Amos then?? Don't know. Lol. I worry some teachers literally teach less and go home early.. Under current system of "teach less learn more" they are already bring work hope daily and work very late. ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryn Turbocharged April 16, 2015 Author Share April 16, 2015 i suppose from where you come from the children are allowed to write about elves, hobbits, dwarves, wizards, goblins, ogres etc ALLOWED? REQUIRED would be more accurate Just kidding - But seriously - from what I can remember (it was 30 years ago) while we might have been given starter sentences or pictures, we were more encouraged to write about what "moved or inspired" us (for story writing) With the marking being based on story construction, grammar, use of adjectives, consistency etc etc 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph22 Turbocharged April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 yeah... teaching the kids to conform to the formula already --- that's what hits me the most... I find the moralising in all of the picture compositions quite heavy handed, but that one can roll with the punches - so long as they don't mark down the kid that takes the contrary position Writing about killing a boy is not about just creative anymore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolicense Turbocharged April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 Because school also have the responsibilities to teach good moral?? gahmen approved moral... selective pickings of Confucian morals. damn they had to take away parts that offended the feminists. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph22 Turbocharged April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 gahmen approved moral... selective pickings of Confucian morals. damn they had to take away parts that offended the feminists. It's a gahmen funded school after all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myxilplix Turbocharged April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 My O-leber English compo developed into a swashbuckling adventure in Africa, involving diamond smuggling and mysterious tribes. Ended up I was the only person to score a 1 for O-leber English in the entire school (yeah it was a pretty crap school). Even my stut stut nerdy classmates who were expected to do as well didn't live up to expectations. You think those O-level angmoh markers wanna read the same old formulaic crap over and over and over? I also pulled one of those "suddenly she got run over by a car, the end." stunts during regular compo classwork but my teacher just laughed. My English teachers were never worried about me. I used to blast through the English exam papers and since I couldn't leave the exam hall in the first hour or whatever I'd write up articles or poems (gaaaay) for the school newletter and submit them with my exam paper when I was finally released. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolicense Turbocharged April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 Writing about killing a boy is not about just creative anymore. that's right!... what happened to the endless hours of slow painful torture before disemboweling the boy and dismembering his body for art? just like that Dr Lector... kidding.. how else do we get creative people? have to be bored out of their minds right? LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph22 Turbocharged April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 that's right!... what happened to the endless hours of slow painful torture before disemboweling the boy and dismembering his body for art? just like that Dr Lector... kidding.. how else do we get creative people? have to be bored out of their minds right? LOL If creative is only found in violent writing.. Then I am worry about creative people.😓😓 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoob Supercharged April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 yeah... teaching the kids to conform to the formula already --- that's what hits me the most... I find the moralising in all of the picture compositions quite heavy handed, but that one can roll with the punches - so long as they don't mark down the kid that takes the contrary position Unfortunately, they do... and we created Famous Amos indirectly... to me this is a form of "unseen" bullying in school. Students must learn what they are taught, and when they "challenge" they are incorrigible. I tend to believe that some kids are more inquisitive, imaginative than others, they explore ideas and believe in fairies e.g. tooth fairies... but when in school, they face the fact of no fairies, no dogs can fly, elephant is never pink in colour etc... We created logical people who analyse data and hold on to statistics as their "bible"... Again good and bad... Learning language can be fun but they took the fun out and give it a "serious" content... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolicense Turbocharged April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 If creative is only found in violent writing.. Then I am worry about creative people.😓😓 who said anything about just writing? LOL creativity is so much more... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph22 Turbocharged April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 who said anything about just writing? LOL creativity is so much more... Yeah... Anyway the topic here is compo. Can u don't be creative??😂😂😂 see we practice this in Mcf too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryn Turbocharged April 16, 2015 Author Share April 16, 2015 If creative is only found in violent writing.. Then I am worry about creative people.😓😓 Don't get hung up on the violence - All I was suggesting was that do something unexpected. Buck the formula In all these stories the boy gets saved just in time ... Violence bucks the trend - but there are many other ways... I didn't sit down and think through - we were chitchatting walking behind the MSCP rushing home for dinner... If creative is only found in violent writing.. Then I am worry about creative people.😓😓 You should read Stephen King - "Full Dark, No Stars" Damn freaking scary and creative - and a great commentary on "the human condition" I think some of his books are really ready for study in lit classes.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockngbrd Supersonic April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 Want to write such thing wait until your spawn grow older, den send her to a design/creative/arts school. Will have many time to write. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryn Turbocharged April 16, 2015 Author Share April 16, 2015 Want to write such thing wait until your spawn grow older, den send her to a design/creative/arts school. Will have many time to write. By then the creativity will be squeezed out - and she will be a worker drone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoob Supercharged April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 what happen to Amos then?? Amos thought too highly of himself and he felt that he was too "talented" to conform with the school system... and he strayed because he was the higher "being" compared to his classmates... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph22 Turbocharged April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 (edited) Don't get hung up on the violence - All I was suggesting was that do something unexpected. Buck the formula In all these stories the boy gets saved just in time ... Violence bucks the trend - but there are many other ways... I didn't sit down and think through - we were chitchatting walking behind the MSCP rushing home for dinner... You should read Stephen King - "Full Dark, No Stars" Damn freaking scary and creative - and a great commentary on "the human condition" I think some of his books are really ready for study in lit classes.... Novel is different. Cause it's where u want to read for hobby. But compo writing and p5 write violent stuff. Teacher will get freak out and call u in.😅😅 Edited April 16, 2015 by Joseph22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockngbrd Supersonic April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 (edited) By then the creativity will be squeezed out - and she will be a worker drone Then too bad, if so easily become drone, spawn not enough drive nor determination. Edited April 16, 2015 by Mockngbrd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph22 Turbocharged April 16, 2015 Share April 16, 2015 By then the creativity will be squeezed out - and she will be a worker drone the truth is out... He worry his children become a worker instead of elite.😝 ↡ Advertisement 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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