Every picture tells a story

The S2 classes were split into groups of 3 or 4 and given a black and white photo.
They were asked to create a story about the people in the photo with some questions as prompts. Here are some of their stories –

“He started life in Turriff and was very poor. He moved to Columbia where he made a lot of money by selling cocaine. He was shot.”

“She was born into a rich family in 1926. During World War 2 she became a pilot. She became slightly deaf but remained a pilot for the rest of her life.”

“He was the son of a wealthy butcher who owned a big business and a big old posh house. He didn’t want to become a butcher and had childhood dreams of being an actor – so he suffocated his father to get his money. In the end he had no family or friends around him.”

“He was born in 1927 and became a fisherman. His wife died and he didn’t go back to his job. Instead he moved to the woods to be by himself. He made some new friends there and was still poor, but wasn’t alone.”

“He was born in Afghanistan into a poor family. He worked as a janitor in an expensive shop where he found a genie in a bottle. He made wishes and became rich and moved to New York. He had a magic carpet and a monkey.”

“She was born into a poor family in India and was hurt in a terrorist attack. Her legs were broken. She became an artist because she was in a wheelchair.”

“He was born in England and went to a boarding school because his family were rich farmers. When World War 2 started he was sent to the country as an evacuee but he was outside in a field and a bomb dropped on him.”

“They were born in the 1930s into a poor family, maybe in Germany. Their dad and their older brother died in the war and only the twin girls and their mother survived. Their mum taught them music and they became rich by performing. They were crushed by a prop when they were performing and both died together.”

“Her family were Scottish but they moved to China when she was 17. When she got back she studied for years to work at NASA. When she retired she was very rich and lived with her family in an estate in Scotland.”

“He was born in a caravan next to the water in North Carolina in 1896. His family was poor so he joined a gang of 6 robbing banks. He was given a death sentence but spent the rest of his life in solitary confinement.”

“They lived in a farm outside Dublin in the 1950s. They were middle class because they were dairy farmers and the children went to school. Foot and mouth broke out on the farm and a lot of the cows died which had a big impact on the farm. So the mother started brewing poteen. They saved the money from the poteen and bought more cows but there was a TB outbreak and the family all died, except for the mum who tried to run the farm by herself but became an alcoholic.”