Lifesavers
Andrew Kelly
Age Range: 7 to 11
Resources - 2-3 packets of lifesavers different colours (different tastes)
Get students to do a writing piece about eating a lifesaver. Students don't often get an opportunity to write about their feelings - anticipation, disappointment, desire, happiness, using their senses with direct experience to write.
But there is a catch - they are not allowed to talk about it. Everything they think should be written down and they are not allowed to chew the lifesaver - they must suck it until it's gone (of course most won't). This means they have to write about frustration of not biting when they want, and letting someone down if they break the rule.
First explain to students they are to write about the experience of eating a lifesaver. As an introduction, before they receive one, they must write first about what they hope for, what it might be like if they haven't tried one, hoping to get their favourite etc. With no talking permitted, students then write about the experience of the shape in their mouth, the smell, the flavour , the sequenced experience of that lolly passing through their mouth, throat and into their digestive system. As well, they must describe feelings, emotions, thoughts, comparisons (similes and metaphors are good to include in this exercise).
As an addition you can keep a few extras for students to continue writing about getting another (the one or not the one they want, the same again... some may get to choose and some don't).
This allows for all kinds of feelings to be described and makes for very interesting and engaged writing. Have fun with it.
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