Thursday 3 July 2008

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick


Now your task is to choose two pictures to write your stories. Think and observe the images carefully. The images must be different, one for English and one for Spanish. You will be expected to write good fantasy stories in both languages including all the relevant fantasy elements, some mystery in order to hook the reader's attention as well as the caption .

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale
I think the photos are all great but us we have to choose 2 I think I've already chosen the. I like the first one with the boy in the bed and a voice that said, is he the one? for English and for spanish I like the one of Venecia of the boat! That one is really amazing. At first I knew I was going to pic the boat one but I couldn't decide which one to do for English so it was a very hard decission! But I have already chosen them but maybe I change my mind. See you...
Kiki

Miss Ale said...

Thank you, Kiki! You still have energy left after your excellent performance!! Go and rest!

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale:
I think this idea is very creatful!! I love doing such things!! Although I would have liked to do them in pairs. photos are amazing!! really good book!! well see you!!
pili.M.

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale, i think I will choose the one of "Archie Smith,Boy wonder" for English and the one of "Mr.Linden´s Library" for Spanish. I´m still not sure about my choice, so maybe I change my choice, but I think i won´t.
Thank you,
Felipe M

Anonymous said...

Hi there!
I think all the photos are really great and I still can´t choose 2. I have chosen 3 and then I´m going to see which 2 I write. I have chose Mr Linen´s library, Under the rug and the first picture of the little boy in the bed and a tiny voice that is saying " is he the one? I think that the third one I chose is very mysterious.
See you soon,
Barbie M

Anonymous said...

Dear Ale:
The photos were great!
We only have to choose 2 and that will be a difficult choice for me because i am between 4 picturesi liked the first one the boy in the bed, the one of the rug, the one of the book, and the one of of the fling house but dont now wich one to choose but i will have time to think because i have a fever and a thorethrought so today i will not go to school
SEE YOU
OLI.B

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale,

When we first saw the slideshow I was sure of wat I was going to choose. Today I´ve seen them again and I´m as sure as yestarday. I will choose the one of the wonder-boy for English, and I will write about the one thats its called : a strange day in July. Those inspire me the most of all the ones I´ve seen. I hope they will be great stories, I already have an idea of what to put in the one of English.
But I´m not sure if I would finish writting it because I´m going on vacations on Tuesday. But it will be great if I could finish it at home.
I think the story of Harris Burdick hook a lot my attention.

See you,

Shany M

Anonymous said...

Hi miss Ale I was told that there were the pictures in the blog so I came to see them. I am glad you post them because the day we were in audiovisuals I was a bit far away of Mariana and you and when I saw them in the class they were very high up and all the pictures were reflected by the light which came from outside. I am thinking about which picture I am going to use and I have three best do you want to know? see you and tell you on monday

bye bye
Thomas D

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale:
All the fotos are very inspaiering and it is easy to now what to wright about the foto. But it is dificult to chose two for that reason. If the stories would have a story that mached it, it would be dificult to get inspaiered. It is agrate oportuniti not always you get to starete having the picture.
Magdalena.N

Anonymous said...

Ale, I think they are all great and it gives you mystery but something of fantasy too!! I think we will have to thnki a lot!! We will have to think for a story that matches with the caption!! A difficult task, but not impossible luckly! I think I liked The house on Maple Street and Te harp! THey are very creative!! I would love to write a story about those 2 pictures!! But I don't know wich one to choose for english and wich one for spanish!!
See you soon,
Agus.T!!

Anonymous said...

Hi!
I am so anxious to do the work of mr Harris Burdick because I have lots of ideas to put on the paper. Also I like the idea of making stories of this type. i think that this story is true but... if it has an author that is called Chris, how could not the man called Peter publish it. If he had the photos with him. I believe you can answer my question on Monday

Tomas p

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale:
I don't know witch photo choose but I'm almost there. I hope that it is going to be a great project or experience. I think this is a good idea to use alot of things that MAriana and you tought us!! I think this is giving a super and great final to our "FAntasy Stories" and I will miss these fantasy stories but well I can continue reading in my house some fantasy stories!! Tgus is a great idea because we can release our ideas of creating our fantasy story describing our writting a story related to the picture or images. We could all use SHOWING sentences for these stories!!
INes G.

Anonymous said...

Miss.Ale:
We think that th e photos are very misterious but the bad thing is that we have to choose 2 of 14 stories, but we think we are going to engoyed.



Pipe.Ba 6B and Matin.T 6C

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale:
For me all the photos are fantasy and mystery. But for me all the photos are great! I really do not know wich one to choose!!! The story of Harris Burdick is very mysterious and I really want to know what happened to Harris and what were the stories he invented to see if the stories were as good as the pictures. It is a really difficult decision to choose one picture of the 14 pictures, but I am going to try to invent my own story. If you had to choose one picture wich one would you choose??? I really do not know; I need to choose one quickly because if not I will spent all the time trying to choose the picture for the story. Don't you think it would be great that someone invented the same story as Harris Burdick. That would be a miracle!!!!
Have a nice weekend. :-)
Kisses
Valerie P.

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale, I liked very much all th images, they are very interesting, and i realy think that i will enjoy writing storyes, of all of them!But as i can choose only two, i would like to write about the one of the library for englich, and for spanish, another place another time.

Daphy e.

Anonymous said...

Aleee.! I think this idea was GREAT! I would have never imagined this! SO CREATIVE.! I am thinking wich picture shouldi make!!
kisses!
see you!
KATI.D

Anonymous said...

Miss Alle,
I really like all the photos i would do a story for all the photos and i think i already have the story`s for all the photos, but as we have to do the story for only two pictures i chose Mr.Linden`s Library and The Third-Floor Bedroom. I also looked up harris burdick in google and i found that there is a 15th picture. It was found in an old lady`s house that was abandoned years ago after she past away. It was behind an antique mirror that she had. I am going to find put more about this because it is really interesting and i want to know more. See you!!!

Lucia V

Anonymous said...

Miss, Ale the photos are great and I reallly think that it is a grat task, to make a story. They all make me feel something that relates my mind to what Im thinking. The story has to have many showing sentences cause we are writing and expanding our ideas from just a sentence and a photo. Well in some way the comentary snt so important cause we have to invent our own casues to the story. When you erite from what you see, you ideas clarify much more and yo are able to see whats the message the photo wants you to understand. A photo on which we can see reasons to what we can see has to be something on which we leave our mind think and invent, just as fantasy your mind flies on to the picture and you start wondering gorgeous thing ou never thought you were able to conect to the picture. A picture , iis too much in the fact no matter from how lottle it describes you can imagine the rest and the reason on what the photo is based in or on what you want the photo to transmit, and at once the whole sentence(at first) gets into your mind and you start writting.
Writing is magic and you can feel it much more when you look on what you want to write of.
Maia.M

Anonymous said...

I've had a really hard time choosing the picture for English, and I've chosen the one of the book, which says: He'd warned her about the book, but it was too late. It's kind of creepy!

Julieta I

Anonymous said...

Mis Ale
I think the photos are some very scared and some not but I have allready chosen the two one is scary and the other misterious
mati k

Anonymous said...

Miss Ale: THIS GAME WAS GREAT!!!!
I RELLY ENJOYED IT !!!!
I THINK THAT THE MYSTERY IS A VERY GOOD WAY TO START A STORY!!!
I think that the most important part of this book is the introduction in wich the reader or listener is traped by the book and led into a world of fantasy, mysteries,and more in wich you will pass many different feelings, you may be very surprised when you hear the introduction to this story because you will feel a lot of interest in knowing what will happen next, but at the same part you may feel to surprised or scared to keep on reading...
I´M REALLY ENJOYING THE IMAGENES AND CAPTIONS OF THE BOOK MISS ALE!!!!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR INTRODUCING TO US THIS FONDERFUL BOOK!!!!!
BYE BYE...
SEE YOU SOON...
CAMI W.

Anonymous said...

The pictures are very good !
I really enjoy writing our fantasy story based on the picture. Allthough I didn´t finished ...
The fantasy story that I am writing is the one called "under the rug".
I choose that one because I think it is a very good thing to describe and it would be a mystery to solve what happends UNDER that rug..
Lucila M

Anonymous said...

Hello Miss Ale:


I chose for english the image of Lindsen's library. I think is very mysterius and is fun to do it. You can write it in deferent ways.
I think is the best image to write on.

Anonymous said...

soory that comment was mine

barbie portela