With three groups of children in the age range of 10 to 12, warm-up exercises to express emotions were played before story writing activity. After, each child wrote a story about one topic s / he chose among the topics that were addressed in previous session. At the end of the session it was talked about the stories they wrote.
GROUP I
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“Mahmut is 12 years old. He has blonde hair, is tall, hardworking 6th grade student...” -
"Once upon a time there was a bride. She had been 16 years old. She married with a groom. The bride didn’t want to marry. The groom had killed the bride…" -
"Once upon a time, there was a girl. Then, her mother has registered her for school..." -
"One day, a human says to a man that let’s buy a donkey. Since name of the man was Eşek, he thought a nickname was given to him and during the night when he was sleeping he had killed the human." -
"Gamze was stingy and malicious. She was defaming people and painting them into a corner..." -
"Some private things are being shared in social media." -
"Hello, our name are Mert, Aylin, Ezgi and Eray. We have experienced very interesting incident. " -
"Yes, one day I was going to school. The lesson was over. I saw my friend when I was leaving school. But there were two strange older brothers with him / her." -
"One day, we went for a trip as a group and while we were moving along, police thought that we were protestors and threw tear gas to us and our eyes teared up. Devran, Burak and I protected the girls. Girls’ eyes teared up a lot." -
“Once upon a time there was a girl. Her name was Ayşegül. Ayşegül was a very good girl, a truehearted, good girl...”
GROUP II
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"4 friends hit the road at 10.12 to go to İzmir..." -
"It was a warm school day. Sedat went out from his home and took his way to school..." -
"There is a girl in our neighborhood. Her father beats her all the time." -
"It was evening in Aleppo, Syria. People were fighting with each other. There were just 5 people left from both sides."
GROUP III
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"Once upon a time there was a grocery man but he was too selfish..." -
“One day our teacher was a very nice person. My teacher got so angry one day..." -
"One day there was a woman named Gülseren who was going to bazaar. Gülseren was suddenly hit by a man without driving license..." -
"One morning when Ali got up, he went out saying “Mommy, good morning”. Later he saw his friend Ayşe “Hello Ayşe. What are you doing Ayşe?”. “I am fine Ali. Thank you” she said and Ali went back home it was late. And his mother said to Ali “Can you run to the fish store and buy fish my son. Ali said “Sure mother of course I go” and ran to the fish store. When he arrived to the store he said “Uncle Fisher 10 kilos of anchovy, it should be fresh”."