Hello everybody and welcome to my blog. Today’s blog will be about my version of Anthony Browne’s narrative story called Zoo. Zoo was a book published in 1984 about a not so perfect family having a family outing to the local Zoo. In some parts of the story the family experiences some problems like the children throwing hands, fighting over food, looking at the animals and describing how boring they are and Dad fighting with the ticket booth guy.
In writing this term, we have been looking at this book and recreating this in our own words. From one paragraph to another, we finished our version of Zoo in 3 weeks. Over this time period we also debated if Zoos should exist or not. There were 3 choices to choose from, For, 50/50 and against. In week 3 we put in our first votes and most people thought Zoos should exist. But in week 6 we looked at some videos of animals enjoying life in the wild and we looked at a sad story of an elephant named Billy being held captive at the Los Angeles zoo. So we put in our final votes in week 6, and this time most people went against it. I chose 50/50 in both weeks because some animals in Zoos get treated with a life they never deserved and some zoos are a place where animals get fed, treated and get taken care of.
After we had completed our writing part of the writing session, we got on to the funny and fun part, the illustrating. We got to make pictures that went along with the paragraph or sentences. My favourite part of writing this term was illustrating because It was funny and enjoyable.
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This is it for today and I hope you all have an amazing day. Do you think Zoos should exist, not exist or are you thinking 50/50? Like me! Goodbye!