writing stories with story cubes
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Writing Stories with
Story Cubes
“Our First Story”
Written by
Furkan Çakmak & Öykü Cemre Uysal
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PART ONE- JOURNEY TO EGYPT
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At a midnight I woke up with the ring of my phone. I
was worried and I thought there was bad news.
Because nobody called me at midnights. I answered
the phone and it was my uncle. He was an adventurer
and fond of travelling. So he said that he wanted to go
to Egypt and offered us to go with him. He was very
excited about this idea. Thus, he called us at midnight.
The next morning my uncle came to our house. We
prepared our luggage, locked the door of our house
and set off. We boarded the plane in the evening. This
was my first experience to get on plane. For this
reason I was very excited. While the plane was taking
off, I was very scared. The hostess served me ice
cream and then I felt relaxed and slept during my
journey. While I was sleeping, I saw an interesting
dream. In my dream I saw a big and shiny fish. She
told me her name “Holyfish”. When my mum woke me
up, the plane had landed and we got off the plane in
Cairo. We found a hotel to stay and checked into the
hotel.
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PART TWO - THE SECRET OF “HOLYFISH”
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The next morning I got up at half past ten. After
breakfast my uncle and I went out for seightseeing. We
went to the biggest pyramid of Egypt. It was Keops.
For me it was huge and amazing. We went inside to see
the tomb of the pharaoh. The inside of the pyramid was
like a labyrinth. There were a lot of symbols on the
walls. We analyzed them for a while and suddenly the
electricity went off. We had a torch and turned it on.
Then we tried to find the exit. When we reached the
door, it was locked. We looked at our watch and
realized it was too late. There was nobody around. We
heard a scream ”Help!” coming from inside of the
pyramid. At once we ran towards the direction of the
scream. A fire ball appeared in front of us, it went
forward and we went after it. More and more we got
closer to the scream and entered in a small room. There
was nobody in the room but the scream was coming be-
hind the wall. There were a lot of pictures on the wall
such as bees, flowers and pharaohs but one picture
attracted my attention. It was a picture of a small fish.
It was “Holyfish” in my dream and I touched it.
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PART THREE- OUR MISSION
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As soon as I touched the picture of “Holyfish”, I and my
uncle fell through a hole, we found ourselves in a jungle in
front of a pond. The holyfish was jumping over the pond, it
was about to die. Because there was not enough water in
the pond for the Holyfısh to live, so it wanted us to help it.
We asked it “Why is the level of water in the pond low?”. It
answered “This jungle is secret and I live here for
hundreds of years. A few weeks ago a man came and he
took a bottle of water from my pond. The water in my pond
has reduced quickly day by day. Unless someone bring a
bottle of water from the Lake Eyre –the biggest lake in
Austuralia– to this pond, I’ll die. If I die, the earth will be
destroyed!” We were surprised. My uncle asked “How can
we go to Austuralia? It’s far far away…” The holyfish an-
swered “I have got magic power and I can send you there.
Do you want to do this mission for the earth?” My uncle
looked at me and answered “We’ll do our best to save our
world!” It said that “Look at this huge pine tree, when you
get closer to its stem, you’ll see a secret door. As soon as
you get through the door, you’ll come across a labyrinth.
During all your travel you should move only with your emo-
tions. There will be a guide on your way and when you
choose the right guide you’ll find your way easily.
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PART FOUR – END OF OUR MISSION
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We didn’t have much time. Immediately we got through the
secret door of the huge pine tree. And then we were in the
labyrinth that Holyfish told about. There were two ways in
front of us; there was a turtle on one of the ways and a
snake on the other. My uncle and I looked each other and
remembered our bad memory about snakes. Once we went
to a picnic and a snake bit me and it bit my uncle too while
he was trying to save me. We had to stay in the hospital
for a week. So we hated snakes and preferred the turtle’s
way. As soon as we stepped on the way, the gravity force of
wind was so powerful that we arrived by the Lake Eyre. The
environment was so quiet that as if all nature was asleep. I
took a bottle out of my bag. We filled the bottle with the
lake water. Suddenly we found ourselves in the jungle near
Holyfish’s pond and we poured the water in the pond. The
water level increased quickly and the pond was full of water
anymore. Holyfish seemed very happy and said “Thank you
very much! The earth is very grateful to you. ”We were
very happy too. Holyfish told us “ Now, you can wish what-
ever you want from me. I’ll realize it for you. ”We said that
“We want all people in the world live in peace!” Holyfish
said “Don’t worry for it, I’ll do my best for the peace in the
world. We‘ll meat again soon!” And then suddenly we found
ourselves in front of our hotel. We were very surprised but
felt happy to be in our hotel and with our family members.
-THE END-
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Written by
Furkan ÇAKMAK
Öykü Cemre UYSAL
Supervisor:
Fatma BARLAS