six words August 26, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in 6 words, Blog Challenge, Edublogs, connect, fun, learning, miniLegends.trackback
Ernest Hemingway was a very famous author.
He was encouraged to write a story in just six words.
Here is one that he really liked and thought was one of his best works … so the story goes.
‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn.’ [This started a brilliant class discussion]
Please add your own 6 word stories in the comments.
Please let other people know so they can visit us and join in the fun.
We will collect them and present them for everyone to share.
Our negotiated task
- Write a ’story’ using 6 words.
- our 1st one - by Kyle “We have lots of fun here”
- It can be any 6 words but sentences are good too
- no swear words, it must be appropriate for our age (8 and 9 year olds)
- remember ! “…” , ? capitals . ‘
- it must be a story, give the sense, idea or part of a story … people can read into it what they want
- twists (unexpected endings) are fun
minLegends - write as many as you like for a post in your own blogs but please add a comment here with your best one.
Click here to read some examples - opens ‘6 words’ page above in a new window
— feel free to leave comments there as well 
Add to Diigo
Talk,talk,talk,make teacher angry. By Myxuan.
Stars are shining in the sky.
One day there were three frogs…
By Jasper
Mr Upton is really really cool !
Pencil ,pencil , write, write, rub, rub.
By Sandra
i like playing soccer on saturday
by julian
Our Six Word Challenge
Our theme is telling our storys
It is a secret. What secret?
You are cool.I am too!
From Mikayla
Al has the best class ever.
By Jeremy
I like playing on the computer.
by Megan
Our six word challange
Run, Run, Jump, Jump, Skip, Skip
The day the world blew up!
By Kyle
My six word Challenge
Bears say hello, Bears say goodbye
Our six word chaling
walk walk jog jog run run
Fifty dollars:Blue dog, eats lots
Kelly is my frined in class
Talk talk talk Shout Shout Shout
By Dilajla
I kick the ball at night.
The minilegends have a cool blog
Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Night.
I am flying in the sky.
I never drink wine or beer.
Eating, stop, choke, go, to, hospital.
Max is my best, best friend.
My dog ate my dad quickly.
Neigh, neigh. Hurry up, lets go.
Talk, talk. The teacher goes crazy.
Challenge is hard, but really fun.
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