Year 8 Workshop with Cora Zon
After Cora had told the story of The Orange Tree students chose leaves, worked in small groups and considered what magic powers these leaves would have. The inbuilt desire to have a money tree dominated but there were lots of other fascinating suggestions as well.
During the session they created digital images of the tree and wrote short creative writing pieces about the magical powers of their leaves.
They wrote their stories on leaves
and used Microsoft Word. They turned their images into JPG’s and emailed their documents and images ready to be uploaded on to the Healesville Weblog.
In another session they will learn how to publish themselves. During this session it was stimulating to witness problem solving and dogged determination to cross the line and publish.
Filed under Creative Writing, Digital Art, IT in Action, Workshop Year 8, Year 8 | Comment (0)My Magic Leaf - Year 8B
My leaf does everything.
If you eat my leaf and then imagine something you want or want to do then you will get it in a click of you fingers. These leaves only come from one certain tree and they are very rare. If you happen to find one you have to swear on secrecy or else what you wanted will happen the opposite.
One day I ate one of these leaves and I wished for all the people in the world that were sick to get better again, after I wished this I saw people throwing away crutches and wheel-chairs around. It was funny and everybody had a smile on their face.
My leaf can make anything you want happen. If you want to be prettier, then you turn prettier overnight. If you want to be richer then you can. All you have to do is chop off a tiny bit off the leaf, put it in hot water then drink the liquid and chew up the leaf. If you run out of pieces, you have to go back to the tree and pick off another leaf. The leafs only come out once a year, so you have to go on that day and pick another. You can only pick one at a time.
By Tori
My leaf is magic because when you eat a little bit of the leaf you can fly. You think about where you want to go and then you will go there. You don’t have to do anything you are just quickly transported there. The leaf can run out but if you plant half of one leaf it will grow into a tree full of leaves that can make you fly. The leaves only grow in the summer and winter so you will have to stock up when they come on the tree.
By Sarah
My magic leaf brings dead people back to life. If someone dies you have to poke it down their throat with a stick. Then you must tie them to a rock and chuck them in a river. When they come back to life they will be immortal. The tree that the leaf comes off is dead so you must dig under to the roots and the leaf will be growing off the roots. Be careful not to overdose or you will die too.
By Mikhaela
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