My Book

My Book 

This year, sixth grade Language Arts class read The Last Cuentista together. The Last Cuentista is about a girl named Petra who moves to another planet called Sagan, but all the people who traveled on the ship’s memories were wiped except for Petra. In the book, Petra talks to her grandma about storytelling and the importance of passing on stories. In class, we also told stories and learned about the importance of them too! Keeping stories is important because we need to learn lessons from stories, and learn about the past.

In Language Arts we also made stories about what we thought our Ideal World would be and look like. After we wrote our stories, we drew our planet. Here is a picture of what my planet looks like:



In my Ideal World, there is a lot of crazy wildlife like blobfish, chicken nuggets, and elephants. 

 

After our Language Arts class wrote our stories and our Ideal Worlds, we put it all together in a book. With artist Peg Gignoux, we printed leaves on paper with Akua ink. When we finished printing with as many colors as we could, we collaged the printed paper into a secret book based on our Ideal Worlds. Here is my collage:

The pink paper on the sides of the collage is a story about my great grandmother. We put our Ideal stories and our own stories into a book! 

In conclusion, I had a really fun time writing, and making art!