20% Time

At my school in my english class, we are doing something similar to what they do at Google offices. It's called 20% Time and my class is the first class in the school to do this. Basically every Friday we take our 45 minutes of english class and we work on our project. These projects that my classmates and I are taking on will take about a whole semester. My group, constructed of four people, is creating a modern day bible. Our "modern day bible" is taking biblical accounts that teach certain lessons and putting them into modern day context and a picture book. So far my group and I have managed to complete the stories of two books, while I work on the art. These books will be different from what has been made before. With the story of Adam and Eve we created a story about a household that contains two children and a father, with a garden in the backyard. The father tells the kids not to eat from the garden since some of the foods are not completely okay to eat, but the children eat from it anyways, and they get very sick. These stories will help kids to understand the bible more, and will make it much more interesting than the regular, pictureless bible. Hopefully our project is a success in creating these books and it helps people to see that the bible can be interesting and fun too!

 (not my art)