Day 16 - Change of Plans (Year 7 + Year Nine characters, and Year 7 Stories)

What we originally had planned for today, unfortunately, did not pan out. We had planned to go to Madrid to go to a museum and then to a market by Retiro Park, however, there were no tickets available online for the museum, so we decided to leave it for another day.
We decided instead to use our day to read and type up work for the students. We weren't able to put up much of their work yet as many of them had not yet finished their stories or were only getting started on them.
Both Jass and I were impressed with the work that the students were producing, we started with the Year Sevens work and while they're only young, the stories they wrote were all quite impressive, and mature especially for their age. It was surprising to find out just how advanced mentally, and how mature the Year Sevens were, Jass and I thought we'd have to go in to each year group and teach them in a different way because they would be at different levels and different learning abilities, however, we found that the Year Sevens understood what we were talking about just as well as the Year Nines did. It made us have to rethink what we were going to do with them altogether, because as all the students were more advanced than we originally thought, it meant they got through the work faster than we anticipated, so we had to come up with more work and activities to do with them.
It was a huge new learning moment for us, as neither of us had never done any work like this before, it was a learning curve on what it is like to be a teacher (albeit only a small part of being a teacher).

These are the characters that Year Sevens and Year Nines came up with (Year Eights still needed to be typed up)

Year 7 Characters

Sammirah Age: 16 Gender: Female Physical Description: Blonde Blue Eyes Thin Medium height Strengths/Flaws: Intelligent but she's afraid of spiders, she's selfish and stuck up Relationships: No friends

Alex Drake Age: 21 Gender: Both male and female Physical Description: Their face is half man and half woman Long hair on one side, short hair on the other side Strengths/Flaws: Relationships:

Peter Holes Age: 47 Gender: Male Physical Description: Spaghetti shaped body Very large head Strengths/Flaws: He is very social and friendly, but he is not clever at all Relationships: He didn't have good relationships in school, his parents thought him to be who he is now

Robin Age: 14 Gender: Male Physical Description: Red hair Green eyes 1.68 height Thin Strengths/Flaws: He is strong, but he is afraid of lines (lions?) Relationships: He is easy going

Year Nine Characters

Sharlie Matt Age: 93 Gender: Male Physical Description: Soft, caramel skin Growing disability which makes him look like a baby Strengths/Flaws: Very intelligent and observant, however, he does not know how to walk, no one takes him seriously because he looks like a baby Relationships: He goes to a group for people with disabilities and he has a girlfriend who is very tall

La Jenny Age: 16 Gender: Female Physical Description: Red hair Green eyes 1.60 height Thin Size 36 feet Strong Strengths/Flaws: She is intelligent and brave, but she is clumsy and has no self initiative Relationships: She is very nice to people, very sociable, has a lot of friends.

Lionel: Age: 34 Gender: Male Physical Description: 1.76 height White Green eyes Messy, dark hair Muscular Strengths/Flaws: He is very honest, but, he is arrogant and close-minded Relationships: He is friendly

These are the stories that were written by the Year Sevens using the characters seen above:
(Some students wrote stories individually, some wrote as part of a group.) (Stories are written word for word what they wrote).

Alex Drake

Alex Drake is walking through the forest. It is 10:00 pm, and he is going to his house. Alex suddenly falls and he finds a blank diary. There's nothing written in it. Two minutes after Alex arrives to his house and decides to go to bed. The next morning Alex starts writing in his diary. Alex has always wished for a pet so he wrote it in his diary. Two hours later somebody knocks on his door, so he decides to go and look. He opens the door and he sees a box moving, he takes the box into his house and opens it, and a little puppy jumps out of the box. Alex exclaims “Wow a dog!!”

Alex found out that what he had written in his diary had come true, so he decided to write all of his wishes: an iPhone XS Max, a girlfriend, a bigger house, and that his dead grandparents would be resurrected.

So, after this, Alex decides to go for a walk to the forest with his puppy. While on the walk, something hit him in the back of his head, he looks at it and sees that it's an iPhone XS Max. He is so happy that he starts to dance. On his way back home, he hears a voice calling him from behind, he turns to see his grandparents. He goes home to find that there is an even bigger house there. He goes in and sees that there is a beautiful lady in his bed, waiting for him.

Suddenly, he wakes up and he realises that all that happened was a dream.

Peter Holes

“It's my birthday!” said Peter with a very excited attitude.

When he goes out, he sees that no one is there, he thinks that all the people must be hiding so they can have his birthday surprise. If you don't know, he is very social and is friendly with all the people of the city, the happy city.

Sometime after, he sees that no one is there, so, as he is very dumb, he goes to see a film in the Planetocio. (The film is 'Avengers: Endgame') and so, he starts his birthday without humans in the world.

Robin Perjual

Robin was going from school to home. To get home, he needed to pass through a side street. A creepy man was following Robin, so he hid behind a green bin. Then the creepy man went running until he got him. He put Robin in a black bag. The creepy man took Robin out of the bag. At night, Robin started planning how to get out of the house. At 3:00am, Robin started to escape, but the only way of getting out of house was passing through a corridor with a lot, a lot, a lot of squares and lines. I didn't mention, that Robin is scared of lines. He started walking without stepping on the lines, but suddenly, he heard the man getting out of bed. He started running, and stepped on a line and he went crazy. When the man was going to take him, he hit him because he was crazy and so he hit the man and the man fainted. So, he started running to the street. One friend of his mother found him and took him to the hospital and Robin got better, but the room in the hospital was full of lines so he closed his eyes and when he opened his eyes he was in his room, so he calmed down.

Sammirah

Sammirah was walking through the street. It was very windy out. Suddenly, a book fell, carried by the wind, on her head. Sammirah opened the book; it was blank. Then, Sammirah had an idea. She went home and wrote a book about how she broke the record of likes in a YouTube video. Before she went to bed, she went to check how many likes she did have. It was amazing, she had 8.38 million likes. She searched on Google what the record of likes was. She was paralysed, her video had the record of likes in the whole world. Then, Sammirah remembered the blank book, “So...that book is...” she said.

. . .

She finds the book in a dirty bin in the garden, she opens it and sees that it is blank inside. “I don't like it, it is brown and dirty, well I see.” then she remembered when she saw 3 50E on the ground, but somebody else got to it first, so she got the book and started to write “I wanted those 50E”, when suddenly, in her pocket, there was 50E, but, some minutes later, the room starts filling up with snakes.

. . .

Hi, my name is Sammirah, I am 16, and I have blonde hair and blue eyes.

I have a problem, I don't have friends. My relationship is not everything good but they are so nice and that is believable. The other day, I found a book, the pages were white, no one had written in it yet. So, I found out that it was a bit magic. The other day, I found one hundred euros, but a man got there first, I wrote it in the diary, and I found a hundred euro in my pocket.