November 6

 

Evidently, the blog didn’t update last week.  So, I’ll try again

 

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting
• Richard the Lion-heart second draft.  (Most of you handed this in already, but for the few of you who didn’t I’ll post it just as a reminder!)
• Turn your “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” outline into a summary.  Here’s an example of “The Elves and the Shoemaker.”

I. 

1.  Shoemaker’s/ house/night/near/Christmas
2.  Shoemaker/poor/ not his fault
3.  wife / kind
4.  cut /last/ shoes/ night
5.  morning / shoes/ fixed / mystery

II.

1.  man / buys/ shoes / $
2.  2 / shoes/ fixed / morning
3.  sells / $/ becomes/ rich
4.  Shoemaker / wife/ curious
5.  spy/ night

III.

1.  see/ elves/ making/ shoes
2.  wife/ makes/ clothes
3.  elves/ take/ clothes/ dance/ sing
4.  elves/ never/ return
5.  Shoemaker / wife/ wealthy

One night sometime around Christmas, a shoemaker sat in his house. 1. The poor shoemaker was penniless through no fault of his own. Happily he had a kind wife to share his trials. 2.On this night he cut out his last pair of shoes and left them on the table to complete in the morning. However, when he awoke in the morning, the shoes were mysteriously fixed.

That day the shoemaker sold the pair of shoes for a good price. 2.With the money he was able to purchase enough leather to cut out two pairs of shoes, which, again, were finished for him in the morning. 1.The shoemaker sold the excellently crafted shoes for a good price, and over time he became wealthy. Eventually the shoemaker and his wife became curious about the shoes that mysteriously finished themselves overnight. They decided to stay hidden one night and spy on the shoes.

As midnight approached the shoemaker and his wife were surprised to see that elves entered their house to make the shoes. 2.To thank them, and because they were shockingly underdressed, the wife decided to make them some new clothes. The next night when the elves arrived they discovered their new clothes and began to dance and sing. After that night the elves never returned to the shoemakers home. 1. The shoemaker and his wife, though, remained happy and wealthy until the end of their days.