Journal writing. Module 1 & 2 Writing Activity
In your journal, write down a list of at least five to ten nouns and five to ten adjectives as you observe a scene at home, work, or in your community. Writing 2: add verbs and adverbs. Add a couple of sentences using all four.
DONE:
Looking out of my study room window:
| Nouns | Adjectives | Verbs | Adverbs |
| rain | wet, cold | drizzling, pouring | steadily, unusually |
| garden | old, wild, green | grow, flourish | rapidly, extraordinary |
| trees | flowering, beautiful | hang, cover | extensively, well, very |
| chicken: Frosya + Marusya | funny, white, traditional | search, forage, look | anxiously, curiously, eagerly, patiently |
| rooster: Vassily | active, brave, loud | fight, protect, call | bravely, fiercefully, steadily, rapidly |
| cherry | wild, sweet, pink, gorgeous | blossom, stretch, move, smell | utmost, very |
| tulips | red, purple, amazing | emerge, last, remain, grow | quickly |
| magpie | curious, smart, black-and-white | fly, tease, feed, inspect, escape | carefully, rapidly, usually, often |
| car | blue, wet | beep, drive | slowly |
| clouds | thick, low | hang, move | never |
Here I am, sitting in front of the
window, and looking out to get inspired for the first writing
assignment.
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The window glass is wet: it's steadily
drizzling since early morning, making it another unusually cold and
wet day. Said to be the coldest ever spring in the Netherlands.
However, our old and rather wild garden grew green rapidly and all
the fruit trees are flowering extraordinary well: pink cherries
stretch their gorgeously decorated twigs – I forced them to grow in
different directions with a complicated system of ropes and fixing
rings... Old apple trees, also in extraordinary rich blossom, hang
over another corner of the garden. Tulips – this year only in red
and purple, to our surprise as we planted many more, – emerged last
week rapidly and altogether, but got old quickly, and already lost
their last petals in the today's rain. Vassily, Frosya and Marusya,
our recently acquired trio of traditional Groningen bantam chicken –
nicely colored in white with black stripes and spots, – are slowly
walking under the trees. They are steadily searching for food, looking
under the leaves for whatever surprisingly tasty, curiously inspecting
all the corners, – obviously preferring to remain under the cover
of the trees rather than in the rain-proof chicken coop. Is it so
boring there in the coop? Vassily, the rooster, fiercefully protects
the two hens. It's not only that he calls loudly every half an hour
or so, but he bravely attacks and fights whatever or whoever
approaches him and his chicken. I love to observe him fighting the
Magpie. This black-and-white smart bird, one of the smartest among
all Corvids, flies here often – to inspect chicken feeder, and
definitely also just to tease Vassily, the rooster. And she always
manages to escape just seconds before Vassily really attacks! Brave
rooster indeed! He fights not only cats and wild birds, but myself
and my husband as well – quite larger, twice turkey-size,
competitors for attention of his ladies. Yes, a car moves slowly in:
my hubby is home, back from birdwatching. Leave it now then to the gray
hanging clouds, and the lyrically singing blackbird in one of the
trees – for the family. It's cozy whatever the weather is.
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Week 2 final writing assignment still to be read & done.
Assignment for week 2 also done and submitted for peer review.
Looking forward to get the results!
