Creative Writing by Avyakt Jaiswal Gr 5B

On the 7th of September 2015, Grade 5 had a special session on `creative writing’ conducted by a guest teacher Ms. Rubina Majid. This event was organized by the Scholastic. We were almost 50 students sitting in the MPH, eagerly awaiting for an exciting class to unfold. We did some very interesting writing activities to bring out our creative side. First, Ms. Rubina asked us to think about the `hare and tortoise’ story. She asked us to imagine if instead of a running race, the two animals had a competition of swimming, how would the story turn out to be. We all came up with various versions of that! We were told the importance of stages in writing i.e. plan, draft, edit, revise and publish.

We also did a writing piece on `rules for Goldilocks’ on behalf of

her parents so that she doesn’t wander around on her own as she does in the story `Goldielock’s and the three bears’. We also wrote down as a task - five qualities of a leader. Towards the end, as we approached lunch time, we were asked to write five adjectives for our `expected’ lunch; and this made my mouth water and stomach growl with hunger! Ms. Rubina was very interestingly re-telling the stories related to the tasks to some of us who did not know about it. I feel this workshop gave us a good guidance on creative writing.