Big Read Week

  Two people came into school, one a storyteller and one a play writer at Lower farm school when it was the big read week. The storyteller told us a few stories that were really good and then told us how to write our own stories and told us a few things about him. I really enjoyed the storyteller coming into school because I now know how to write my own stories without any help. We also had a play writer come into school, he told us a really good story, we only heard half of it but it was still really, really good.

    It was about the only two men in the world and they fell out of a tree. The one man, everything that he saw in his dream came true. He saw in his dream all of the animals in the world and they wanted a leader. So they all got together and snake went up and said that the animals should choose him for their leader because he would be great. Then it was raven’s turn, everyone loved raven, he had a great voice, he was a beautiful singer and a lovely dancer, and everyone wanted him to be leader. Then frog came rushing in saying “But is he brave?”  The raven knew he wasn’t but said he was. “If you are you will go to the Sunwolf and get a piece of the sun off him.” So the raven went all he way up the mountain to the Sunwolfs house. He banged on the door demanding to come in and the Sunwolf let him in. To get a piece of the sun raven danced so fast that it made the Sunwolf go giddy and he fell to the floor. Raven went to the sun and got a piece. The sun was so hot that by the time he got back down to the animals he couldn’t dance and his voice was horrible, the animals no longer wanted him for their leader. Raven was mad and chucked the piece of sun into the forest. The whole world was full of fire and just then the man woke up and that is all that he read to us.

     The play writer then told us how to turn a story into a play.  He then chose some people to act a part of the story out and I was one of them. I was one of the animals, a dog. I had to act really daft and silly. I really enjoyed the big read week at Lower Farm School.

   Lucy

 

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