Reading Assignment: Please read chapters 1-4 in Sarah, Plain and Tall
Writing Assignments: 1. Below is the start of a poem about Little Red Riding Hood. There are blanks in the poem. Try to fill them in with the words shown so that the ending lines rhyme. We will do more of the poem next Saturday before we start the new book. The author of the poem, by the way, is twelve years old.
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Once upon a time in the middle of a wood
Lived a little girl known as little red riding ________.
One day her mother sent her to her grandma’s with a basket of food
Who’s state at the moment didn’t seem very ____.
She told red riding hood not to stop on the way to the farm
And that if she paid heed to these words, she will come to no ______.
Red riding hood promised that on the way she wouldn’t stop
And reach her grandma’s fast with a skip and a_______
But when she started looking at the plants and the birds
She soon enough forgot her mother’s ______. See Second assignment below.
Assignment 2: Re-write the story about the three sisters in Lon Po Po. Start out by describing how the mother goes away and the wolf comes to visit. See, however, if you can give the story a different ending. We have already read two different endings to the story about a wolf who comes to visit, pretending to be grandmother. Can you write a third version?
