2008 MANY STORIES ONE VOICE ONLINE COLLECTION

Oliver Refuerzo, David Sanderson, Matthew Chamberlain, Ben Hartley and Craig Smith, Ages 20, United Kingdom

 

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This was a group entry, by students at Beaumont specialist FE college in Lancaster, UK.  The authors worked together in a group to answer questions and offer suggestions, using various language packs on Vmax devices, about the characters, storyline, setting etc.  These suggestions were made into sentences by a supporting member of staff.

 

The fire

 

Rick and Amy were best friends.  They lived in a town called Barrow and went to school together.  Rick was deaf so he couldn’t hear people talking, or any noises at all, and neither of them could speak.  Rick used symbols and photographs to talk to people and Amy had a computer with pictures on, so that when she pressed one of the pictures it said the word.

 

One day at school the fire bell started to ring.  No one knew if it was a practice or a real fire, so they all started to go outside.  Rick was in the toilet, and when he came out he found everyone was walking out of their class rooms towards the front door.  He couldn’t hear the bell so he didn’t know what was happening and tried to walk past everybody back to his classroom. 

 

Amy saw Rick walking the wrong way and grabbed him.  She showed him a picture of a bonfire on her computer and a picture of the playground, and grabbed his arm to pull him the right way.  Rick understood that he was supposed to go outside with everyone else, even though he couldn’t hear the bell.

 

 

 

When they got outside they saw smoke coming from the library – all the books were on fire!  Rick realised that Amy had saved him.  He still had his symbols with him so he found the ones he wanted to say to Amy.

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you                                 Friend