Exercise 7

The 5 word story:

Once apon a time there was an old man who went to his local shop and bought a big red packet of salt and vinegar crisps and then he went out to the post office to collect his money but he got lost so he called the Guards. When the Guards came they asked where he wanted to go. He told them "to get his money" so they brought him to the post office and he collected his grandmothers money but he lost the money again. What a poor old man.

What was the challenges about his task?

It was a challenge to construct a sentence when nobody new where the story was heading or what it was about, so we had to wait for our turn and build a sentence based on what was already constructed then just try stay on a similar tangent.

What skills did we need to use for this task?

There wasn't many skills needed or used during this task other than knowing how to construct a word, a sentence and knowing how to stay on a same tangent so the story could make sense.

What could we have done differently to achieve a different outcome?

For any number of different outcomes we could have started with a different sentence we could have re-arranged the order of who was next to build the story, we could have talked about a true story so everybody had an idea of where the story was heading and what they would say when it was their turn.