Silent Warm Up

• Write a paragraph or more about the best, funniest, or happiest day in your life. Feel free to add illustrations if there is time.

My funny story:

I worked at Disneyworld for a few months down in Oralando Florida. One day one of my roommates and I took a day trip to the one of their many theme parks. We seemed to be bombarded everywhere we turned because this park had an hourly parade on almost every street. One of the parades included random characters from shows like Winnie the Pooh and the power rangers. The characters are walking, dancing and waving down the street; when out of nowhere an older gentleman jumps out of the crowd of families and pummels the man in the Piglet costume. The man, now on top of Piglet, is punching the character in the face. It was a messy ordeal, but Disney’s police got there in no time. Although I am not sure what happened to the man for sure, rumor around the park was that the man and his family were not from America. And when Piglet made eye contact with his wife, smiled and waved, the man took it as an insult (or hitting on his wife). Employees were saying that the man and the next three generations of his future family are banned from all Disney owned parks. This is all hearsay though, all I know for sure is that this grown man had some unresolved issues with the lovable character piglet.

• Get three sheets of roughly 8x8 paper
• Follow the instructions
• I will walk around to help during the video

Next step

• Decide how you want to bind it
• Wrap around? Knots? Multiple strand? Braids?

2 separate strands knotted on one side

Final Step�Creating the inside…

• The illuminated Manuscripts we have looked at recorded important routines/prayers/ceremonies/events so they could be remembered and possibly passed down generations
• The inside of your book will be a spin off of this. It will be a positive ceremony, event or story that has happened to you!

Criteria

• Needs to fill the inside of your book (can be both front and back, or just one side)
• Has to include text and imagery
• May be painted, sketched, or done in any medium of your choice
• Be creative! The criteria for this is small, but the possibilities are huge!

You could literally map out your day and then place the text/story throughout

You could do it in the style of a true illuminated manuscript and include imagery

You could have a large drawing or painting and place all the words around the image

Stuck on happy/positive stories?�Do a brain web!

Ms. S

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FUNNY

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Piglet incident

Swallowing the fly at the grocery store

Thinking someone stole my car when really I parked in a different location

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HAPPY

Stanley’s happy heart in his chest

Memphis farting every time you pick him up

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EVENTS

My brother had a grand mal seizure, because of this they found his cyst in his brain… this is positive because they put him on medication to save his life.

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Getting my drivers license

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Graduating High School/College