Reading Notes: English Fairy Tales A

I read the old woman and her pig. In this story, an old woman finds some money and decides that with the money she is going to buy a pig. On her way home from buying the pig she came across a stile, a structure meant to keep animals from passing but humans can get over. She tried to force the pig to continue but could not. She asked the dog to bite the pig to scare it over, but it would not. She then asked a stick to beat the dog so the dog would bite the pig, but it would not. The then asks a fire to burn the stick so it will beat the dog, but again nothing. The story goes on and adds many parts until eventually she bribes someone to do what she wants which leads a domino effect, ending with the pig getting bitten and scared over the stile, and the woman getting home.




 Bibliography: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890).
Photo Info: Story beginning, Flickr

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  1. Laura GibbsAugust 31, 2018 at 8:30 AM

    Hi Kennedie! I am glad you read some of the English fairy tale unit; that's actually coming up later in the semester, in Week 12, when we get to the British and Celtic units. The assignment this week was an anthology of stories, so if you want to write a story for this week, you need to do that anthology reading -- see the email I sent you on Thursday with information about that. Meanwhile, you can use these notes later on when we get to the British and Celtic part of the class, or maybe you will want to look at English fairy tales as a possible Storybook topic! :-)

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