MY OWN STORY

"A MAN WHO LIVED FOREVER"

by Natalia Kerfant
 Could you guess
how was the life of
"a man who lived forever"?
Was he happy?
Nervous? Tired?
 At the begining,
he was glad not to die
and see what happened
in the future,
he learned a lot about History.
 But, being a prodigy was
"a two edged sword":
those he loved died
and the people started to think
he was special and
look at him with fear.
 The man started not to sleep
very well "during the night",
because he didn't like that
the people were afraid of him.
 So, he took refuge in
"a damp dungeon",
to keep away from everybody.
 Alone, the man realized
he could use his incredible survival
capacity to help people, and maybe
the society would rely on him.
 - All war must stop!
He shout. And he invited
people to kill him if their
weren't agree with his ideas.
 Some persons realized
it wasn't a good idea to fight
and kill people. Others injured
our man, but he never died.
 Then the man who lives forever
became famous, and esteemed.
He combats war with ideas and
helps the humanity to confront them
for furfilling their dreams.
ACTIVITIES
WITH MY OWN HISTORY
 1 UNDERSTANDING
I prepare children to work with the story
I have written about "A man who lives forever".
So I translate and work with the difficult words,
making mime, drawings or verbal explanations.
 2 READING
Then I will read the story and the children would
do it at the same time with their copies.
After each sentence, I let them guess what does
it mean and we all translate writting it down
in the blackboard.
 3 DRAWING
This is a relaxed activity that helps students
to express with the simbolic language
what they have understood.
Everyone can describe with their own words
and show the result in a debate.
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 4 DO IT YOURSELF
We make groups of 4 or 5 students to create a tale.
Each participant chooses a chart from
the differents categories (character, place, etc.)
and makes his own sentence.
Finally, the group have to order the phrases
to make a coherent story.