Tag: Literacy

Ki Ora

We are trying to change a story from 3rd person / narrator to 1st person. We had to:

• Choose a fairy tale we know well so we can rewrite it.
• Brainstorm a fairy tale from another character such as the bad guy to see his point of view.
• Add words to describe my character Giant – Hungry, angry, tall, scary, buff.
• Add the pronouns I need to use for 1st person perspective – I, we, me, my, our.
• Check we have the main events from the story and number in order to remind me to use paragraphs.
• Then we had to write the open paragraph.

Here is my first paragraph:

I was eating peacefully up in my castle until i heard something I haven’t heard in years. It was a human! It’s been forever since I’ve seen a human. He was disturbing my peace and invading my house. I warned him once but he still continued to search my castle. I told him again  to go away but that made him scream. His screaming was so loud it hurt my ears and that’s when I decided to chase him out of here. I chased everywhere in the house but he just wouldn’t go away. Then I finally chased him out of my castle and to my surprise I saw a gigantic beanstalk that was attached to my castle. I was determined to make sure he was gone for good so I followed him down the beanstalk. When all of a sudden I slipped and fell to my death.

I found that using the bad guys point of view was interesting and because we never get to hear his side of the story.