As promised, here are a couple of story starters. The first one is part of an old Ukranian FolkTale, and the second is a
Please read the story, look up any vocabulary, and create an ending for the story. Be creative! This is your chance! Don't just make a simple ending...
I look forward to your stories!
Don't forget some pictures.
Matthew
Option 1) The Cat (Puss) and the Rooster (Cock)
Once upon a time there lived a Cat and a Cock who loved one another
dearly. The Cat would play his fiddle and the Cock would sing, the Cat
would go out to get food for the two of them, and the Cock would stay at
home and look after the house. Every time the Cat prepared to go out he
would say to the Cock:
"You mustn't let anyone into the house, Cock, or go out yourself, no matter who calls you."
"I won't, don't you worry," the Cock would reply, and he would get into the house and stay there till the Cat came home.
Now, a Fox once saw the Cock and decided to lure him out and catch
him. She crept up to the window of their house when the Cat was out and
called out:
"Come out, Cock, and join me, and I'll give you grains of wheat and some water clear and sweet."
But the Cock called out in reply: "Cock-a-doodle-doo, I'll do without, For I promised Puss I'd not go out!"
The Fox saw that this was not the way to go about things, so one
night she crept up to the house, threw some wheat grains under the
window for the Cock to see and herself hid behind a bush.
By and by the Cat went out hunting as usual, and the Cock opened the
window and looked out. There was no one about, he saw, but there,
scattered on the ground, lay some luscious grains of wheat. The Cock was
eager to eat them and said to himself:
"I think I'll go out and peck at those grains for a bit. There is no one about, so no one will see me or tell Puss on me."
But no sooner did he step over the threshold than the Fox was upon
him. She seized him by the scruff of his neck and away she ran to her
own house! And the Cock called out to the Cat:
"Save me, Brother Puss, I pray!
Foxy's taking me far away.
For her bushy tail
I can't see the trail.
If you don't come, friend,
I will meet my end."
(What will happen?! Will Cock be saved? Will he not? Will Puss hear the cries for help? Oh no!)
Option 2) Masha and the Bear
Once upon a time there lived an old man and woman who had a
granddaughter named Masha. One day some friends of Masha's decided to go
to the forest to gather mushrooms and berries and they came to Masha's
house to ask her to go with them.
"Please, Grannie and Grampa," said Masha, "do let me go to the forest"
"You may go but see that you keep close to the others and do not lose
sight of them or you might get lost", the two old people replied.
Masha and her friends came to the forest and began to hunt for the
mushrooms and berries. From bush to bush, from tree to tree went Masha.
Before she knew it she had strayed away from her friends. When at last
she saw that she was all alone she began to halloo and call to them, but
her friends did not hear her and made no answer. Masha went here and
there, she walked all over the forest, and there before her she saw a
little hut. Masha knocked on the door but there was no answer, so she
gave the door a push and lo! the door opened. Masha went into the hut
and sat down on a bench by the window.
"I wonder who lives here she thought". Now in that hut lived a great
big bear, only he was out walking in the forest just then. It was
evening by the time he came home and when he saw Masha he was very
pleased.
"Aha", said he, "now I'll never let you go!. You will live here in my
house as meek as a mouse, and you will cook my dinner and my breakfast
too, and be my servant, faithful and true."
Masha grieved and sorrowed for a long time, but it could not be
helped, and so she stayed with the bear and kept house for him. Every
day the bear would go into the forest for the day and before leaving, he
would tell Masha to stay in the hut and wait for him.
"You must never go out without me, he told her, for if you do I will catch you and eat you up."
So Masha sat thing of how she could get away from the bear. All
around was the forest and there was no one to ask which way to go. She
thought and thought until she knew what to do.
That day, when the bear came back from the forest, Masha said to him:
" Bear, Bear do let me to to my village for a day. I want to take something good to eat for my Grandma and Grandpa."
(What will happen? Will Masha think of a plan? Will the Bear see the plan? Is Masha doomed? Ahhh?!)
