CSI: Kempsey Adventist School

The crime remains unsolved!

Kempsey Adventist School were the hosts this week for Crime Story. Year 12 Advanced and Standard English tacked the 'Craft of Writing' workshop whilst Year 10 undertook 'Unleashed'.

Year 12 started strongly. Some bright minds mixed with those whose favourite exercise was jumping to conclusions. Working their way through sensory imagery, creating motifs and shortening their timeframes it was their authentic dialogue that really shone. In an exercise that always produces heated debates and competing opinions, the interjections and truncated sentences within their dialogue was a highlight. They will take this forward for their Craft of Writing unit of work and apply the newly honed skills to their next piece. Next week we follow up with our Reflection Statements and return to present our prize to the winning investigators.

Year 10 took part in a testing day of Crime Story Unleashed, which allows flexibility in delivery for any text or medium. At each school we visit, I always discover a student with a new theory, a new connection and new possibilities...even though I wrote the scenario. Year 10 KAS managed to throw up some new ideas for this old detective to consider...as well as the greatest collection of onomatopoeia for the sound of a firearm. "Ratatatata", "plup plup plup" "dooga dooga dooga" and a Star Wars inspired "pew pew" took centre stage as each group outdid the last. Year 10, it was a blast...look forward to catching up again next week for the judges verdict.