Week 10: A Trade For A Trade

By Lucy Tirahan

For Week 10 the theme was 'A Trade For A Trade' where we discussed the concept of exchange in the world and how we can intertwine this concept with revenge. For the starter activity, I showed the students a well-known quote by Ghandi that states "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" and asked them to follow this stimulus with their own examples voicing a similar message. Over the past two weeks the students have been working on a piece where they have created their own solar system (due to the recent discovery of our new solar system in our universe); these pieces form the main activity for this week and last week.

'“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” -  M.K Gandhi

‘A bribe for a bribe makes the whole world poor.
A compliment for a compliment makes the whole rejoice.
An insult for an insult makes the whole world cry.
A life for a life makes the whole world desolate.

Manav

 
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” -  M.K Gandhi
 
A word for a word makes the whole world speechless.
An ear for an ear makes the whole world deaf.
A blood for a blood makes the whole world alive.
A trade for a trade makes the whole world fair.
 
Neha Khendria

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” -  M.K Gandhi

A friend for a friend makes the whole world friendly.
A voice for a voice makes the whole world deaf.
A life for a life makes the whole world empty.
Love for love makes the whole world smile.
 
Harsimran

Activity 2: Solar System

The Zttrium Solar System

In my solar system there are 118 planets each with 1000000 inhibitors and in this galaxy all males are actually sensible and not inappropriate, instead of just a few. Each planet is made entirely of an element in the periodic table people are able to change their form into one animal only but me and all my friends and family can change into any animal eg: falcon, seal, lion etc. Every planet has its own activity for example on Mercury you can surf everywhere, on Bromine you can go scuba diving and on francium you can go rocket jumping (provided you have water).

Manav

Blood Planet
 
On Blood planet the whole thing will be made of juicy blood. There will be life and I will be the ruler and if anyone annoys me they will be sent to prison and if they don’t make it up by 5 days I’ll use their blood for my planet and it’s food. Although some of it will be fake blood; however, most of it will be real and almost everyone is welcome there.
If you look on the bright side of mine (which it already is for me) then when you get hurt I could use the blood to help you if you need it. Don’t worry, what I’ll do is that all the blood will be separated into each group. The blood there will always be clean and if you want you can play in it. It’ll be like a blood swimming pool.
 
Neha Khendria

The Solar System

Being the first compound,
Means I’m number 1,
I have to take all these elements,
And make them fun,
 And be careful,
Because the toxic ones,
Will turn against us,
 Turning us to dust,
But even as dust they couldn’t kill us,
Cause we can’t break down,
Any further,
First let’s make some compound friends,
And make the first planet,
Fun till the end,
Mercury we named it,
Not suitable for life,
For it was too close to the star,
Who would give and destroy life,
Her name was sun,
Beautiful as can be,
But mercury was mean,
Making all the planets,
Bow before him,
Next was the protector,
Venus was his name,
Stayed strong against mercury’s reign,
He wanted a friend,
So Icey Earth was made,
Perfect for life,
So the human race began,
Venus had a job,
Earth wanted everyone to have a friend,
So seven were made in the end,
Mars was made to please the Earth,
Next was the biggest,
A gas giant and a tornado will fit right down there,
The ‘big red spot’ we’ll call it,
As rosy as her cheeks,
Then her little sister,
Saturn is her name,
Gorgeous rings around her waist,
Uranus her twin brother,
Blue as can be,
And freezing cold temperatures,
You’ll freeze straight away you see,
Neptune was the last to made,
But watched over,
Like a big brother.
 
Harsimran
 
In a universe far away,
In a place which will take you eras to reach,
In a place where you will never be able to imagine,
Is a place that’s beyond your dreams?
 
There is no science,
Or plantations of beings
Or the gloominess of planet earth
And this I will be guaranteeing.
 
Here, in this magical kingdom of mine
Is a visit you can never deny
This is the home of my seven planets
Where the level of fun is manic

Ayesha