Tom Tit Tot: I must admit that the title of this story made me giggle. Overall, the story was extremely similar to Rumpelstiltskin. The similarity did not bother me, though I did feel like I was reading something I already knew and part of what I love about this class is learning new stories. All in all the story was good though and I liked some of the vernacular that was used.
The Rose Tree: Wow, this story was way more violent than I was expecting. I thought the stepmom was just going to cut the hair off, but she killed the girl! Though it did make the song make more sense within the story. I thought the song might have been tangential, but no it was definitely how the story went. Completely caught me off guard. I liked it though, the story.
The Old Woman and Her Pig: I love stories like this. It is passover soon and at the end of every passover we sing a song that is cumulative like this about a father buying a kid (as in goat, not child) for two zuzim. I have fond memories of that song and so seeing stories like this make me happy. It even has extremely similar elements like the stick and fire and butcher.
Binnorie: Though this was not my favorite story of the unit I still enjoyed it pretty well. I liked a lot of the alliteration at the beginning of the story.
Mouse and Mouser: I enjoyed the rhythm of this story quite a bit. It made it quick and fun to read. The mouse was pretty stupid to accuse the cat though, he should have seen the ending coming.
Cap O' Rushes: I liked that this story was similar to Cinderella without being an exact copy of it. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
The Story of the Three Little Pigs: I have always absolutely loved this story so it was so great to read it for class! There were also some bits included that I did not remember so that was fun to read as well.
The Master and His Pupil: I enjoyed this story more than I thought I would. Normally stories in this theme annoy me, but this one is well done and fun.
I loved reading your comments about the English Fairy Tale Unit. I also read this unit this week and absolutely loved it. My two favorite stories were "The Three Little Pigs" and "The Old Woman and Her Pig." I loved how you used the wtiting format from these sources into your own story this week. I also agree that I did not love the story "Binnore." It was cool reading your opinions over the unit and comparing them to my own. Great work!
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