Playing with my new computer, I found this on UTube - a student production of Peeling the Onion. A great job - and a nice coincidence as I talked to a class in Brisbane about the book while I was there. Nice to know the book's still being studied! It came out first in 1996.
Very different talking about it now too. When I first started doing school talks about this book I was walking with a stick and unable to stand for more than a few minutes; it was painfully obvious that the book was based on personal experience. It's nice to be able to talk about it much more as fiction now!
Here's the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWtaivaUtBo
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Friday, April 10, 2009
School Visits
I had an amazing week of school visits in Brisbane last week - very busy, but very rewarding. With John Moffat of the Book Garden kindly volunteering to drive me, I was whisked in and out of thirteen schools, with time for a cup of tea (and often a bit more!) and a chat with most of the librarians before the talks. What a dedicated bunch they are! At nearly every school, whether government or private, I was told, 'We're so lucky here - our kids are just great.' I suspect that attitude might have had something to do with it!
The groups were large: 90 to 300 kids, mostly grades 4 to 7, and so I used Nim's Island to discuss the development of story to book to film. (Except for the Grade 9's studying Peeling the Onion, when obviously I discussed it!)
However the first school, John Paul College, had an interesting approach: two students interviewed me, using questions drawn from ones all the students had submitted. Each question was illustrated with a power point slide projected behind us, with pictures drawn from my sites, or simply appropriate photographs. It was wonderfully done - and most amazing of all, even though I had no idea how many questions there'd be, we finished it in exactly the hour - couldn't have done better if it had been rehearsed!
The groups were large: 90 to 300 kids, mostly grades 4 to 7, and so I used Nim's Island to discuss the development of story to book to film. (Except for the Grade 9's studying Peeling the Onion, when obviously I discussed it!)
However the first school, John Paul College, had an interesting approach: two students interviewed me, using questions drawn from ones all the students had submitted. Each question was illustrated with a power point slide projected behind us, with pictures drawn from my sites, or simply appropriate photographs. It was wonderfully done - and most amazing of all, even though I had no idea how many questions there'd be, we finished it in exactly the hour - couldn't have done better if it had been rehearsed!
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