Book Making, The Last Cuentista and My Ideal World
A few months ago my language arts class along with the rest of the sixth grade read this book called The Last Cuentista. The book was all about this girl moving to a new planet with her family and in the process of going to the new planet she lost all of her family. The girl (Petra) is a huge storyteller but she is afraid of losing her stories when moving to a new planet because the workers on the ship erase everyone’s memory. After all, “What is a world without stories?” While battling that all she is on a mission to find her family again without anyone knowing.
After finishing The Last Cuentista the whole sixth grade wrote about what their Ideal World would be. So when I wrote mine I thought about writing a story like the one we had read. After writing half of the story I abandoned the idea of writing a story. Instead, I did what it was like living in my Ideal World. It was called The Unknown. After writing and thinking over my newly written piece and a lot of editing later, it was finally done!
I really enjoyed this project and I challenge you to try it on your own. I had a deadline to finish this, but lucky for you time is on your side. So now I encourage you to go write a masterpiece! Happy writing!
Now, my favorite part of my language arts class this year. It’s called Book Making. Basically, you use paint and other materials like string, leaves, branches, paper etc. For my book, I only used Aku ink which is a really special type of ink. I also used paper and leafs to collage the different pages of my handmade book. After adding all the pages it was time to add my cover. I used a pink cover, since my planet is called The Unknown it’s short for TU which is what I put on my cover. After I finished all that, I added my finishing touches, and I was done! This project was definitely the highlight of my LA class and I really enjoyed it! These last few months have been very challenging but in a good way and I am glad I got to do all these awesome things to end the year strong!