Okay, so I didn’t make it in time to be a part of the Day in a Sentence last week, and I didn’t even get my sentence posted here for posterity’s sake until almost a week late, either.
Despite my tardiness, I don’t want to pass up the opportunity to share yet another great web application. Last week’s Day in a Sentence used PicLits, a creative writing site that features images on which you can paste your own words (“freestyle”) or drag-and-drop keywords.
Since I wrote my sentence first, I had a hard time finding an image there that really fit. Most of the pictures are nature-oriented, it seems. I chose the birds flying ’cause they reminded me of hawks (can’t tell if they really are), and there were two of them (me and Kevin) out there on their own (the way it felt behind the mic after so long!).
I’m thinking this will be a great place for my students to creatively display their haiku! I’ll let you know if it happens. :)
To see my PicLit, you can click on the thumbnail above to go to the original. Here’s a transcript of the sentence:
“After talking my husband into taking his guitar to the local Open Mic Friday night, my parents agreed to keep the kids, and we made a night of it; we played four originals and one cover and had a great time after not having hung out in town in, oh, about four years.”
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