Choosing an object for a display

Salma sees a message from her community centre. The centre is making a local history display called “Journeys to Work”. She wants to bring something from home.

The message says: “Please choose one small object that tells us about a journey to work in the past. It must fit on a shelf. Write a label with the object’s name and one sentence about how someone used it.”

Salma looks at three things with her father. First, she finds an old cinema ticket. It is small, but it is from a family day out. It does not tell a story about work.

Next, her father shows her his bicycle. He rode it to work for many years. It matches the theme, but it is too big for the shelf.

Finally, they find an old bus ticket in a box. Her father kept it from his first journey to a new job. It is small enough, and it shows how he travelled to work. Salma chooses it.

She writes: “Bus ticket. My father used this ticket to travel to his first day at a shoe factory.”

On Saturday, Salma takes the ticket and label to the centre. She puts them together on the shelf. Visitors can read the label and understand why this little piece of paper is there.