Our first class novel was called The Last Cuentista. This book was about a girl who wanted to be a storyteller but couldn’t because she would be relocated. Even though she could have been caught and then later purged like her parents she kept on telling the stories anyway. I think that keeping stories alive is not just remembering them and then telling them later so that only a couple people know but sharing the stories with everyone. Even if you tell the story to a couple of people it can still keep it alive because they can also choose to keep it alive.

After reading The Last Cuentista we had to use our imaginations to create an ideal world. This world could have anything, it could be as simple as just Earth or something wild such as new animals, atmosphere or even what controls it. We were allowed to choose partners and I wanted to be partnered with my friend Jackson. Luckily he did too. After we created our world which was very crazy and very different we were about to do something very different from what we have done in Language Arts.

After having our ideal worlds planned out we were making pictures with akua ink to create collages and later a book with Peg Gignoux. During the time we were making pictures we found some plants and then painted a piece of paper or newspaper to the color we wanted the picture to be. Then we put the plant on and rolled it and when it came off it was an image of a plant. When we collaged we cut out the plant or what we wanted from the piece of paper and glued it on. After that we cut out a part of the book so we could look at our collage. After everything was finished our secret room book was finished.

We have done many projects in Language Arts and have done many more such as reading another class novel called The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin and doing a detective notebook on it. But in this blog post we only covered our ideal world, book project and The Last Cuentista.