When Mr. G told us that we would hear a writer talk to us I was actually quite happy, because I enjoy listening to writers give little pointers to aspiring authors like myself. I think that anyone at the assembly who was paying attention could have taken a lot out of David’s presentation, because he did it in easy kid language and he made sense. I think his poems are amazing in two ways, one he used great rhyming words but still maintained the flow that he wanted and two he cared about what he wrote.
I understand when he said it took him one month to write his poems because I know from experience that everything doesn’t just come to you at once and even if it does you can always make what your thinking more interesting on paper. Anyways when I write my short stories it also takes me one too two months to write it because it takes sometimes even over four copies to get one amazing piece of literature.
My favorite thing David said was the three components of writing because I really agree with them. I also never really think of what’s happening in my own family and when David mentioned it and gave examples, I thought of all the crazy things that have happened to me and my friends and how those crazy amazing things would make a great poem. David writes great poems/short stories hopefully I will too some day, but even right now I notice when I read back at what I write that my writing skills are maturing just like me and the world around us. Most of the things that David said I agreed with and it sparked apart of my brain that holds my writing.
For me writing solves all my problems good and bad. When I’m angry I write in a darker tone usually thinking of black, when I’m happy I write jumpy little poems with bright colors, when I’m sad I write about sad things like wars with the color grey in mind. Literature is everywhere you just have to look for it.
Arieh Leon Dales 6A
Sunday, November 25, 2007
My response on David Greenberg’s presentation
When you hear you are going to go listen to author for an hour three things come to your mind. 1) BORING! 2) What am I going to do? 3) He probably this old guy who has no way of interacting with the crowd or knows nothing about kids!
Well in this case I thought all those things when Mr. G. told us we were going to see an author. I had already pre-Judged this man to be number three( old guy who has no way of interacting with the crowd or knows nothing about kids! ) was totally wrong!
Mr. Greenberg was the funniest guy I had seen in a long time! Not only did he make me laugh, but he actually taught me some things about being an author myself.
He taught me that you know you are a writer, once you can really care about your own writing. Now when he said this I thought to myself, “Wow, I must be a writer already.” Then once I thought about it for a few minutes, I really understood what Greenberg was trying to say. I think he was trying to teach us that you have to respect your writing and know when to stop writing and when to keep on going. He was trying to put through a message that told us not to just leave your note book in your locker or in your backpack, take it with you in your arms, don’t let the pages get crumpled, treat your writing like you would like someone to treat you!
I know it sounds silly but it true. Who knows how many pages of brilliant writing have gone into the garbage by mistake, crumpled up, ripped, or even simply blown away.
I felt David Greenberg was a creative, funny, Jewish, and a really inspiring man. I think we can all learn something from Mr. Greenberg.
Marc L.
The T.V.
The T.V.
What would life be without this device?
A dark hole, a disaster not once but twice!
You flick through the channels with smoothness and ease
without knowing how many takes happen to get the perfect sneeze!
Car commercials to T.L.C.
Lights camera action 1, 2, 3
Glaring at the glowing screen
watching that mesmerizing scene
you grunt and try to find the comfy spot on the couch
the you sit up and sulk into a typical American slouch
Oh no! Your brother has stolen the remote!
In the mean time you make a devious plan to strangle his throat
you hear mom yell beastly “ Dinner time”
then you scream back “one sec mom I gotta watch him get covered in slime”
what an amazing thing the T.V. is
it even shows you what’s up in Show Biz
You hear the old man say “ To much tv and your eyes will turn square”
and you say back “ Do you really think I care?”
What would life be without this device?
A dark hole, a disaster not once but twice!
By: Marc Levin
