In Language Arts class we recently read a book called “The Last Cuentista” by Donna Barba Higuera. This book told about a girl named Petra who was forced to leave her home on earth and travel to a planet named Sagan. A group called the collective ran this mission and to eliminate all recognition of Earth they erased their memories during the time on the spaceship. But Petra’s brain wiping didn’t work, so she must pretend to be part of the collective to survive. Petra is also trying to bring people back their memories of Earth and to bring her stories to this new world. This was a really fun book to read and had plenty of excitement.
After reading about how Petra had to leave to go to a new planet, we decided to make our own dream planet. Our ideal world project consisted of writing about our planet in a creative way, and drawing our planet. I made my ideal world based around my favorite sport, Soccer, for example my planet looked like a giant soccer ball. There was a lot of detail we had to put into making our planet like what animals live there, how the government works, and what types of plants are on your planet. I liked being able to create my own planet because it allowed me to be super creative.
After we had finished making our ideal planet we made them into little pop-up books. We did akua ink printing on pieces of paper then made them into collages. We made a scene from our planet and made a fold up window to it and glued our ideal world writing to the inside of the book. We put on hard covers and wrote the name of our planet out by cutting paper into letters. We finished our books and put them on display.
We have had a lot of fun projects in Language Arts class and I hope you enjoyed reading about them.
