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Week 13 Story: Mr. Smith

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This story is now in my google site.  Once upon a time, there was a young woman, Elizabeth, who was looking for a man to marry. Elizabeth had many suitors, too many to count. She loved men and she loved dating many at the same time. But, there was one man in particular she liked more than the others, his name was Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith was tall and built like a strong lumberjack. He treated Elizabeth better than any of her other suitors and one day he decided he needed to marry Elizabeth. He asked her to marry him and Elizabeth excitedly agreed. A couple weeks had gone by of being engaged an everything was going great. He kept telling Elizabeth how amazing his mansion was in the Hamptons that they were going to move into together but he would not let her see it because he wanted it to be a surprise. Mr. Smith told Elizabeth that he needed to go out of town for business for a couple of days and Elizabeth thought this was the perfect time to go and get a sneak peek at the house, sh...

Reading Post: English Fairy Tales, Part B

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Mr. Fox By: Joseph Jacobs introduces main character gives qualities about the character introduces second character gives qualities about him the two join together introduces premise of the story she finds what she was looking for leads up to the climax foreshadowing climax happens describes characters emotions other character is caught in the act of doing something bad describes the actions of both characters  character is terrified and runs away dialogue between characters suspicion  ends with a dramatic scene bad guy dies Mr. Fox's castle

Reading Post: English Fairy Tales, Part A

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Tom Tit Tot By: Joseph Jacobs begins by giving the setting introduces main character states action of character introduces problem introduces solution dialogue between mother and daughter all the pies are gone conflict between the characters new character introduced king wants to marry daughter a lie is told daughter is in trouble  dialogue between king and daughter new character introduced new character to help solve the problem daughter must guess name shes in another problem  one problem leaves and another one comes king gives wife the answer she guessed his name The pies the daughter ate.