Homework #34 due November 6

Homework #34 – Write your own Tall Tale – You are the narrator – plus 5 characters.

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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
Fact or actual event (real)	Funny stuff and exaggerations	Sequence of events	Characters and settings	Problems that must be solved in a funny way.
“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."	"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.”	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.	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.	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.

Fish in the park