We want to know what you think……………
about Sherry Ashworth’s book Paralysed
about the workshop
about what you REALLY like reading – not connected to school
about your favourite reads
In fact about absolutely anything to do with reading for others to share. Please post a comment below.
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What a fantastic day!
Sherry Ashworth inspired pupils to produce the most incredible stories in about 20 mins. What talented young writers we have in Warrington.
I was taken on a roller-coaster ride as Ryan reduced me to tears with his emtional story about visiting his Nana in hospital while Heather had me on the edge of my seat with her exciting, death-defying experience of bungy jumping in the Grand Canyon.
I hope some of the pupils will visit our blog to share their thoughts about the workshop and maybe provide us with some tantalising snippets from their stories.
A big thank you to Jean Hudson for inviting me to share this exciting and inspirational day and also to Sherry Ashworth for sharing her formula for writing a good story. Who knows, one day I just might.
Hi, i thought that the visit to the Sherry Ashworth workshop was really good because she was very lively, and explained how to write a good story. You need people around you to give you an opinion, which worked really well in her book Paralyzed. My thoughts on Paralyzed were that is was exciting and made you think of people who are really paralyzed and what they go through.
What I think she should of done is, set it for a higher age group, because kids of 12-13 don’t really think about committed relationships.
Overall I think it that is was a fun day out, and to meet her was exciting and have her talk about our writing was good because she gave us a writers opinion. Hopefully in my future writing, her technics of writing will help me.
I enjoyed the Sherry Ashworth workshop and thought it was a really good idea to take students to lean about writing from an actual successful writer, because the writer knows what they are talking about.
We met Sherry Ashworth and had to read one of her books “Paralysed”. I enjoyed the book but thought it could be aimed at an older age group as it was about older teens in Sixth form.
When we were there Sherry Ashworth told us about where she got all her ideas for “Paralysed” from and most of them were interesting to find out about.
Then she taught us some very useful techniques about creative writing. I felt the benifit of this worshop when it came to my exam as it was about creative writing.We were given the opportunity to do our own pieces of writing and then red them out. The piece of writing was about bravery and we were given help from the book as bravery is a key theme in “Paralysed”.
The workshop was a good experience and it was great to have met the writer herself so she could explain the book in more detail. If anything could have been improved then I think another book could have been used for a year 8 age group. However it was a great book.