We stressed to the kids that it's incredibly important to build a rapport with your characters before you implement them into a story, otherwise their role in the story itself can lose its strength. Using their completed sheets from yesterday, the kids filled out these worksheets really quickly and got onto drawing pictures of their protagonists. Some of the drawings were... Detailed, to say the least. I adore the imaginations of both year groups - they come up with ideas that I would never have. Kids here in Spain are so ineffably unlike Irish kids their age, and it shows in their writing. There is still a lot of childlike wonder and creativity in their ideas- but that it not to say these kids aren't smart. Not at all, they're extremely intelligent. Some of the things and ideas these eleven year olds hit us with leave us speechless for a few moments as we're discussing their ideas. From one boy in year 8 who knows far too much about the history of Yugoslavia, to a girl in year 7 comparing the city in The Arrival to how London looked after the Great Fire, these kids have us wracking our brains in search of replies to the absurd things they say. But it's truly a joy to get to experience this, and I'm having a great time teaching.
Here are the groups' characters biographies and story titles, based on today's worksheet:
Year 8 groups' ideas ^
Year 7 groups' ideas ^
The kids have some great vocabulary and I can't wait to see them exercise it more when they begin writing their stories tomorrow.
In other news, after school we went to the shop to pick up some bits we needed for the house, and I got a ready made lasagna for dinner. Can't go wrong, surely. No. Of course it can, because it's me, and now our whole house smells like crispy cheese because I burned it EVEN THOUGH I did exactly what the box said to do:( Dinner plans need to be adjusted.
Until tomorrow chicos,
a very hungry Ciara
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