Thursday, October 23, 2008

The Painting's Story

The Papaya's Language Arts writing assignment today was to tell the story of a painting. The painting we chose was:

The Raven Addresses the Assembled Animals, c.1590, Miskin Here's the Papaya's story, dictated word for word:

The Raven Teaches

Once, there was a raven that was a missionary and a teacher. When it was Sunday, all the animals got in their cars and drove to the raven to listen to what he was saying. And the raven lived at the church. At the church, there was a mountain. And it was outside. And all the animals came up to listen.

The raven told them about God. After the raven was done, they sang. After all the animals were done singing, the animals went to Sunday School. So did the raven. And first, they told them a story about God. And then, they did crafts. They made pictures of God. After that, they went all back to church, and sang songs. And then they went back to Sunday School again, and they ate food there. And they played there. After they ate lunch and dessert there, they played with all colored airplanes (toy airplanes). And when they were done playing with toy airplanes, they went back home. After they went home, they took a nap. They probably told people about Jesus before they took a nap.

The End

3 comments:

Kimberly Long Cockroft said...

this is a much more tame assessment than I felt looking at the picture. the animals in his story seemed to be very civilized and not about to devour the raven (kill the messenger)--a brave raven all in all, teaching bible stories to the crocodile.

Papaya Mommy said...
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AppDaddy said...

THere is nobility in manual labor.
But that being said, J won't be too far into his first HS job of that sort before he realizes there are better ways to make a living.

Unloading trucks in Miami, chipping Terrazzo off of floor slabs, roofing are all in my "resume" from that period.

And they all sucked for air!

Didn't take me long to figure it out either.