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3M Family Prepare for … PAT’s in Story Writing
As part of the PAT Workshops – to prepare for story writing… our students had to finish a story called “My Birthday Surprise”. This activity followed the reading of “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs” by A. Wolf…as told to Jon Scieszka. The following are their ‘Middles and Endings’ Here was the story ‘Beginning’… On the evening of my granny’s birthday, I heard the sound of a loud sneeze in the kitchen. It was hard to ignore because of the loudness of the sneeze, so I went to see who it was!
Brice’s Birthday Surprise

On the evening of my granny’s birthday, I heard the sound of a loud sneeze in the kitchen. It was hard to ignore because of the loudness of the sneeze, so I went to see who it was! All at once I noticed there was a big dark cloud of thick smoke coming from the kitchen. When I opened the door, there was a pig sneezing really badly! It made my house of straw fall down around us! Then there was ham laying in the middle of the ground! Of course I went and ate it! Since I did not have a house left… I went to my next door neighbour’s house. He is a cow – so I thought he’d have lots of room for me. The same thing happened there… he started sneezing really badly and it made his house fall down around us! This time there was steak laying in the middle of the ground… so of course I went and ate it! When I went to my third neighbour’s house – I was not worried because he is a horse and his house is as strong as a horse’s house should be! Even with all of his sneezing – the house would just not come down! I don’t like to eat horse meat anyways! But my neighbour the horse called the police and they came and caught me at his house. They took me to jail and I never got out for YEARS! From then on… I stayed away from sneezers!
Brittany’s Birthday Surprise

On the evening of my granny’s birthday, I heard the sound of a loud sneeze in the kitchen. It was hard to ignore because of the loudness of the sneeze, so I went to see who it was! All at once I saw a fox in my kitchen! He kept sneezing and sneezing for a long time! I didn’t know it then… but he was having an allergy attack! Some of his friends had blown dust in his face and he was allergic to dust… so he was sneezing and sneezing and he came and knocked on my door for help! He was so mad at his friends that he stopped being friends with them forever! But guess who his new friends are now? ME and my Granny! I finally figured out what was wrong and I took him to the vet. Then I gave him to my Granny as a birthday present so that she would have a new pet to keep her company! My Granny’s house NEVER has dust in it anywhere!
Hyapatia’s Birthday Surprise

On the evening of my granny’s birthday, I heard the sound of a loud sneeze in the kitchen. It was hard to ignore because of the loudness of the sneeze, so I went to see who it was! All at once one big bad ferocious ugly monster was standing right in front of me! So… I stepped back and I made a creaking sound. I got so scared that I shut the door slowly and ran upstairs. I am smart. I left some traps for the big ferocious ugly monster. As quickly as possible, the monster got caught! He said to me, “Don’t worry! I just wanted to come to your birthday!” The guests started arriving and they had a big giant celebration. Why did someone tell me to be afraid of one big monster? He was the life of the party!
Earl’s Birthday Surprise…

On the evening of my granny’s birthday, I heard the sound of a loud sneeze in the kitchen. It was hard to ignore because of the loudness of the sneeze, so I went to see who it was! All at once it was the wolf, trying to steal a cake for his granny! Luckily he had a cold and he sneezed. I kicked him down to the ground and he fell. After I took care of the wolf, he got away and dressed up like my grandma (but my grandma was hiding under her bed). When I was about to hand him the Birthday cake, my grandma popped up and ate the wolf (instead of the wolf eating her)! My grandma was too full to eat her cake, but she still had a happy birthday!
Jared’s Birthday Surprise

On the evening of my granny’s birthday, I heard the sound of a loud sneeze in the kitchen. It was hard to ignore because of the loudness of the sneeze, so I went to see who it was! When I opened the kitchen door… I saw a big bad wolf sneezing in the kitchen! He turned and asked me for some sugar. I said, “NO!” Then the big bad wolf sneezed again. This time his sneeze knocked down my house! When he saw the mess he made, he went running to the next door neighbour’s house made of sticks. I could hear him asking for sugar… and my neighbour said, “NO!” Along came another sneeze and my neighbour’s house was destroyed like mine! Then he went to the third house on my street. It was made of bricks – so I knew those neighbours would be safe! My next door neighbour had called the police and they came and arrested the big bad wolf for trespassing, destruction of property and public nuisance. The wolf got his picture in the newspaper and that is how he got the name ‘big bad wolf’. He got locked up in jail – without any sugar!
Ryan’s Birthday Surprise

On the evening of my granny’s birthday, I heard the sound of a loud sneeze in the kitchen. It was hard to ignore because of the loudness of the sneeze, so I went to see who it was! All at once when I opened the door to the kitchen, I saw a ROBBER! He was very big! Then I called the police and they came right away. By the time they got to my house, the robber was gone! He had stolen all the presents and the birthday cake too! I told them how he looked and they told me they’d do their best to catch him. Then my grandma arrived. “What is going on here?” Grandma asked. I told her everything that had happened. She was sad because we would not have the birthday. But I told her that we were going to go to a restaurant instead. My grandma got the best present there is for her birthday anyways… her family was all safe and sound. The robber can have our cake and eat it too!
Samantha’s Birthday Surprise

On the evening of my granny’s birthday, I heard the sound of a loud sneeze in the kitchen. It was hard to ignore because of the loudness of the sneeze, so I went to see who it was! All at once I opened the door of the livingroom to see who it was, but no one was there! Then I went back into the kitchen to make my Granny’s cake. I noticed that I had run out of sugar! First I went to Mr. Pig’s house and I knocked on the door. The door fell down and I don’t walk into people’s houses (unless I’m asked to). I felt a sneeze coming and I could not hold it in. When I sneezed… the house fell down! It was then I saw my neighbour the pig… dead as a door nail! Then I went to the second house and rang the doorbell. It was Mr. Rabbit’s house. Mr. Rabbit said, “GO AWAY!” I felt another sneeze coming and I could not hold that one in either! I snuffed and sneezed and blew down that house! It was then I saw Mr. Rabbit… dead like Mr. Pig was! Then I went to the third house - Mr. Horse’s house. I knocked on his door but he looked out and yelled, “LEAVE!” Just as I was about to leave… I felt another sneeze coming but then I heard the police coming! I was so surprised that they were stopping at Mr. Horse’s house… that my sneeze went away! Even more of a surprise is that the police came up and arrested me! I was trying to tell the police the truth about what happened at Mr. Pig’s and Mr. Rabbit’s houses but they did not listen. I got put in jail and never let out again! And to think… all because of sugar! Sugar sure IS BAD for you!
Savannah’s Birthday Surprise…

On the evening of my granny’s birthday, I heard the sound of a loud sneeze in the kitchen. It was hard to ignore because of the loudness of the sneeze, so I went to see who it was! All at once I saw a tiny mouse. The mouse sneezed again and his sneeze pushed me down! He sneezed again. This time he blew down the bowl of cake mix and it fell off the kitchen counter! The mouse ran to the mess in the kitchen, and ate all of the cake mix. This made the mouse grow bigger and bigger until he broke the roof off of the house! If he kept on growing he would soon destroy the whole city! He picked me up out of my broken house and took me on top of the highest building in the city. A helicopter was circling around us. One helicopter hit the giant mouse and the mouse fell off the building. The cops knew he was dead so they said, “Let’s throw the mouse in the ocean!” When I grew up… everytime I heard a sneeze… I was always worried!






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