As
part of the Formative Assessment RAFT activity in the PYP Exhibition, Food
Adulteration Group, I chose to write the diary entry of milk, integrating the
language art skills of autobiography writing with the PYP topic. This was very
well appreciated by my mentor.
The Milk Dairies
Today,
I woke up in the farmer’s can. While I swished around excitedly in the can, I
wondered where I would end up after going out of the milk factory — a baby’s
bottle, a milkshake, or tea. The farmer dropped me in the factory and left.
Then, I was carried on a conveyor belt to a room. The room suddenly started
getting hot and then back to room temperature. Soon, it started becoming cold
and I was shivering. I realized that I was just pasteurized. I felt so clean!
Then,
I was immediately packaged and put in a truck. In the middle of the long journey,
someone opened my packaging and poured some cold liquid into me and then used a
small machine to seal me again. I was terrified. I just hope I was only
adulterated with water or starch, not synthetic milk, urea or formalin. I hope
no baby will drink me and I will be bought by someone who knows how to test me.
I
woke up in a freezer. A man walked towards the freezer, opened it, and took me
out. He paid some money to the shopkeeper and took me to a building. He walked
with me into a lab, poured some chemicals into me, and stirred me. Nothing
happened. So he took another sample of me and boiled it — it started turning
yellow. He called another scientist and announced, “Synthetic milk. Let’s write
to consumer affairs.” I was glad that nobody drank me.
Nikita Boddapati – Grade VI A
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