Reading Assignments: For next week please read Rumpelstiltskin and Little Red Riding Hood, which I sent via two separate e-mails. I am attaching them here as well just in case you did not get the e-mails and have access to the forum. Even as a much younger wolf, I never had many friends. I had to spend all my time alone. I hated it. Then one day I saw seven young goats playing on the grass. They looked like they were having a great time. I wanted to join them and be their friend. So I hung around their house. I was waiting for their mother to leave because I know goats don't usually like wolves and she would not want them to be friends with me. When she left. I knocked on the door, but the kids wouldn't let me in. I had to pretend I was their mother to get in.
When I got in the house, they were scared at first. But I made it clear that I wanted to be their friend and play because I was lonely. We all went outside and were playing ball. It was great I was so happy. But then their nasty mother came home and stabbed me in the stomach because she thinks all wolves are bad. She almost killed me, and I barely recovered.
They are both short, so please start Many Moons, pages 2-10.
The book has no page numbers. So consider the very first page as 1 (both sides). Page 2 would be the page with the castle drawing on it. Page 3 would be on the back of page 2. The page beginning "The King flew into a rage ...." would be page 10.
Writing assignment: Please write a version of Lon Po Po from the point of the wolf. You can make him seem meaner or nicer than he is in the story. Here is an example of what I mean using The Wolf and the Seven Kids. I have made him nicer. But you can also make him meaner.
When I got in the house, they were scared at first. But I made it clear that I wanted to be their friend and play because I was lonely. We all went outside and were playing ball. It was great I was so happy. But then their nasty mother came home and stabbed me in the stomach because she thinks all wolves are bad. She almost killed me, and I barely recovered.
To disguise what she had done, she spread all those stories about my eating her kids and needing to cut open my stomach to get them out. They are all lies. She is the bad one, not me. If there is a villain in the story, it's that woman, who thinks all wolves are bad and should be killed.
We did not get to discuss the Brothers Grimm and what they did. We will start with that next week, right after we finish talking about the differences between Lon Po Po and The Wolf and the Seven Kids.