Fighting our way
through the forest
Title: LET'S GO ON A JOURNEY (3): Writing a short story
Activity: Write a simple story about the journey, using just a few words and phrases. Add sound effects to the story drawn from the ideas in the first two activities.
Resources:
Pen and paper
Classroom instruments
Compose computer program
What to do: Choose a suitable tune file for use
with Compose. The 'Compose1'file has enough contrast to be suitable, but you might also
try one of the others like 'Sporty'.
Play through the phrases looking for ones that suit the mood of the journey and looking
for words to go with them.
Fighting our way |
through the forest |
You can add the words either as sung to the rhythm of the phrases or as spoken as the
phrases play, or as a rap.
When you have a story with phrases and words you can add to the performance with other
sounds. These can be using the percussion and keyboard sounds from the earlier activity or
the recordings from the first task.