Beth

=Red Riding Hood= Red Riding Hood goes into the woods to take her Grandmother some cake and wine. When she is a quarter league (2.4 km) into the woods she meets the Big Bad Wolf who she tells where she is going and what she is carrying.

The Wolf thinks to himself that she would be more tasty than the Grandmother so he distracted Red by getting her to pick some flowers for her Grandma. While she was picking the flowers the Wolf races to the Grandmas and eats her and puts on Grandmas clothes and climbs into bed.

When Red gets to her grandmas she finds the door standing open so she goes to her Grandmas bed and exclaims, "Why Grandma what big eyes you have!" "All the better to see you with." he replied. "But what big eyes you have!" she said. "All the better to hear you with." he replied.

Then he sprung up and gobbled her whole and fell asleep.

The woodsman was walking past at that moment and thought to himself "my how loud she can snore!" so he went to investigate and found the wolf asleep on the bed. He cut open the wolfs belly and rescued Red and the Grandmother and killed the wolf.

They all lived happily ever after.



Purpose: To warn and entertain Language: Old English Form: Fairytale Audience: Toddlers and Children Style: Imaginative

=Little Red Riding Hood=

The Roald Dahl version of Red Riding Hood is very different and silly. The wolf eats Grandma and is still hungry so he put on Grandma's clothes and goes to bed. When Red comes by later on she notices that her Grandma has ears to big and eyes to big so she wips a pistol from her knicker's and shoots the wolf dead. A few weeks later she is in the wood and she is wearing a wolf skin coat!

=The Hare and the Tortoise=

Original Version
The Hare was so confident that he thought he could beat anyone so Tortoise challenged him to a race. The Hare thought to himself "Oh he'll be easy to beat so I may as well do it so I can have even more glory."

The track was marked out and at dawn everyone gathered at the starting point to witness the race. The race started and the Hare thought he could have a sleep so he did. When he woke up he thought he could have breakfast and another sleep so he did. When he woke up he saw the Tortoise almost at the finish line so he RACED off down the track and finished a second to late. The Tortoise had won and he was never to overconfident again.



Purpose: Entertainment and Advice Language: Old English Form: Fable Audience: Toddlers and Children Style: Imaginative

Modern Version
Terry (tortoise) and Jack (hare) are called into their bosses office to find out that they are competing for a promotion by doing a project. Terry is hard at work all week while Jack is socialising. When the finally get called in so that the projects can be judged by their boss both the projects are good but Terry is about to get the promotion when he quits! His boss asks why and he answers "I got a job at a different office close by with better pay AND i'll get an office of my own." So Jack got the promotion and Terry got a better job and everybody wins.

Purpose: Language: Modern Form: Audience: Style:

= Hi Beth. = Your summary is excellent. You have done very well including the dialogue as it is very important in every version of the fairy tale. Does Grandma have a capital 'G' in the story we read? Would you be able to put how much a quarter league is in brackets so we remember how much it is? See you next week. Cheers Mel. Ps - if you want to move my comments to the bottom of your wiki then please do!