A round the room story..
By way of a literacy warm up the other day we all sat around in a circle and told a story.
There were not many rules to this game:
1. No names of people in the room are allowed
2. No more than 3 sentences spoken
3. The final sentence should be left half finished.
It was a step of faith on my part, I have not tried this with any group or class before. I was pleasently surprised. First with the ideas flowing and also the sense that the story made in the end. I found it a great warm up activity, particularly if you disperse the ‘not so imaginative’ students around the circle.
I would love it if you could play….
"Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, there lived a wollot, whose name was Fringle. Now Fringle lived in a small cave on the edge of a vast forest. There was nothing Fringle enjoyed more than…."
… going down to the river and watching the zoodlepops frolicking in the warm,silver water. Fringle would often while away the hours watching these tiny creatures, marveling at how harmoniously they worked and played together. Then one day, it all changed when…
the zigglebets came to town. The zigglebets were a fierce creature who devoured forest trees. Within a week they had…
….gobbled up, chewed over and spat out the beautiful forest surrounding Fringle’s cave. Fringle was helpless in stopping them as they had 5 robot like arms compared to his one weeny paw and short stocky tail. “Alas!” he lamented, I still have….
…to cross the forest to go shopping!” he cried. He sat glumly and watched the zigglebets stomp all over the beautiful forest as the zoodlepops madly tried to save it. Suddenly Fringle jumped on to his one teeny weeny paw and shouted with glee his amazing idea…
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…. all we need do is to frumble the zigglebets until they can’t stomp no more. But who will help me in this mighty undertaking, I can’t conplete this task alone.”
Even before he had finished speaking who should come striding out of the forest but…