A play on Words!

Well writing class continue to be interesting. Mrs. Jean is stretching our minds and words to make interesting sentences that are not boring to the readers but paints pictures in their minds what we are trying to convey to them on paper. The last exercise was this:

Try it and see how you do: (warning kids under 9 don't do well with this and kids or adults who are very logical in their thinking this is very hard for them)

Fold and crease a 8 x 11 piece of lined paper lengthwise in half. On one side list 10 nouns. Just any nouns will do (ie, flower, chair, man). Now flip your paper over to the other side and think of an occupation and list 10 verbs that that person would do in that occupation (ie; doctors they give shots, checks heartbeats, perform surgery). Now unfold your paper and you should have two list now of nouns and verbs.

Like:

flower give shots
mom checks heartbeats
chair performs surgery

Now take your nouns and your verbs and make a sentence out of them by combining them. The nound and the verb must be placed right next to each other without adding helping verbs. You may change the verb to past tense if needed and here is what you come up with. A play on words goes something like this:

A flower gives shots of color against the cool gray brick of our house.
Mom performed surgery on my writing paper.
My favorite chair checked the heartbeat of my anger.

Get it! Its fun. It changes the way we use words and it becomes creative. Have fun!