Creative Composers, Session 2 -- Center Valley -- Day 5, August 6th

Today we made a collaborative story which is when everyone makes a part of the story. As every day Peter wrote about cheese. We also did a I used to... but now I... poem which we shared with the class. Our teacher read a book called The Holes in Your Nose to show how you can write about anything and how details count! We discussed story beginnings, transition words, and endings --and including onomatopoeia even in the beginning of our stories. We talked about how we plan our stories with beginnings and include problems that should be solved at the end. Finally we went to the computer lab as usual to work on our stories and create new ones.

This post was collaboratively authored by Sahil and Peter.

Here is the story we wrote together and this is how it was done. Each of us thought up a word, wrote it down without showing it to anyone. We used the word in a sentence when the notebook was passed to us and that's when we could read what was written as a story so far. Here it is...

I was in the middle of eating some Swiss cheese when someone knocked on the door. It was an archer! It was so surprising! The archer was 99 years old and he was ancient. He was so hairy that if you shaved his hair, you could make a fuzzy sweater. His nose hair was very messy and that wasn't very nice. So, whenever he went swimming, he had to use a hair tie. He said to me "Please give whatever you can to whoever you can tomorrow and you will be rewarded." Then, he turned around and disappeared into thin air. Suddenly, Alexandra's true love showed up! It was like slow motion and then he tripped but jumped back up. So he decided to take a nap because he was very tired from all of that. When he woke up, he saw Alexandra in front of him. She asked him "Are you hungry?" He nodded, so she gave him some cheese. After he ate, he thanked her and after talking for awhile, he left for home. Then she chose some more cheese. This time she chose the AWESOME cheese. Suddenly she turned even more awesome and got together with her true love. They lived happily ever after.