Recent Author visits
Matthew was speaking to and working with S1 pupils and S3 pupils on Monday 26 November.
Matthew Fitt, a Scottish writer, poet and children’s author visited Elgin Academy last Monday to tell pupils about the importance of staying true to the Scots language. Fitt, born in Dundee, represents “Itchy Coo”, a Scots language project responsible for Fitt’s Scots translation of Roald Dahl’s “The Twits”, called “The Eejits”. His main aim is to boost the idea of speaking in Scots; he’s visited schoolchildren in thousands of schools, hundreds of teachers and even advises the Scottish Government.
The S3 students in the Scots writing workshop definitely got the message. The pupils were asked to think of as many Doric words as possible then to translate an English poem into Scots. The aim is to teach the pupils that they should not be wary of speaking Scots which Fitt himself was told off for in school. In an interview Fitt said that he was belted for using the same words that he had used when interpreting a Burn’s poem. “I found it very strange, I couldn’t process this.” For more information on Matthew Fitt visit http://www.itchy-coo.com/
Conn Iggulden – Wednesday 3rd October 2012
Nicola Morgan – March 2012 | ||
Visit by Nicola Morgan, Nicola Morgan then told S2 how she first After a round of applause there was |
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Jonathan Meres 3rd May 2012 |
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Jonathan Meres, is the author of books like The World of Norm Series, Diary of a Trainee Rock Cod, the YO! Diary! Series, Love Dad anti Fame Thing. Jonathan visited us in the staff room on Thursday the 31, of May 2012. He came because he wanted to tell us about his books and to encourage us to read more of them, He came Into the room looking at people blankly and saying “‘What?. It was ridiculously funny in a weird kind of way. Instantly I could tell he was going to be a good laugh and boy was I right! One of my friends that had seen him before had said that he was crazy because he made you laugh yet you weren’t sure why. This of course I found out later on when my cheeks were aching because I was laughing so much. After 5 minutes of hysterics Jonathan Meres realised that he had not even said hello yet. So he Towards the end he read an extract from The World of Norm: May Cause Irritation, putting, on awesome voices for each character: Norm’s was a rather deep voice that spoke in a monotone most of the time. The last two minutes was spent with Jonathan Meres hurriedly signing books or pieces of paper. In a nutshell, Jonathan Meres’ visit was really good and I think that because he made being an author and reading books seem so amazing it would have inspired people to read more often. In the end I was sad to have to go as it was the best English lesson I had ever had! Josephine Moreton S1
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Some comments by S1 on author Thank you for coming – you were so funny! James Thank you Thank Thank you Thanks Thanks for Thank you for coming to |
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Barry Hutchison 15th May 2012 | ||
Catherine McPhail 14th May 2012 |
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