Homework #34 – Write your own Tall Tale – You are the
narrator – plus 5 characters.
Name: __________________________________________________________________
Date: ___________________________________________________________________
This Monday we
sketched and outlined story elements to write our own tall tales - our homework this week. Use the
sketch you did in class then do your homework. Tall tales convey the status of a situation or an event. These stories
have unbelievable elements and are related to actual events. For example, fish
stories: “The fish that got away" (fact). "That fish was so big that
it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!" (exaggeration). Paul Bunyan,
for example, is a lumberjack in American folklore. He is a giant who cut down
trees and was known for his strength, speed and skill. The tall tale of Paul
Bunyan is believed to be based on a real person — a
French-Canadian logger named Fabian "Joe" Fournier. In short, a tall tale is a story about a character who is larger than life.
Use your sketch to write your own Tall Tale, and then illustrate the
scenes of your story.
Example of a sketch – similar to the one done in class
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Fact or actual event (real)
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Funny stuff and exaggerations
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Sequence of events
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Characters and settings
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Problems that must be solved in a funny way.
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“My family and I once went fishing. I got a fish but it went away.
It just escaped. At the end I got one and brought it home."
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"That fish was so big that it nearly sank the
boat when I pulled it in!" I got some giant fish and I bought home in the end. They are all in the
neighborhood for visitors.”
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1 Family sets up a
day to go fishing;
2 They drive and have
a nice talk on the way
3 They arrive in a
river first and then to the ocean;
4 Family can speak fish language. They start catching
fish and fish school swim away to escape;
5 Some angry fish get mad
at the family; the visitors;
6 They all argue but
become friends shake hands, and become neighbors in the end.
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Ocean, river, neighborhood,
city, the countryside and a car.
Fisherman and his
kids, their dogs and the talking fish who moved from the ocean to live on
land.
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Because we got the fish, his friends were all mad
with us, but in the end, they all came to live out of water in the neighborhood,
in a park near by my house. We are now good friends.
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Fish in the park
