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What’s your alternative?

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Remember – The Easter Service is tomorrow afternoon. You will need sensible shoes and a jacket for walking to and from the CCC

Tomorrow we’ll continue to write our Alternative Fairytales, after spending last week planning our ideas. Roald Dahl’s ‘Revolting Rhymes’ are an excellent way of using humour and rhyme to grab the reader’s attention.

Last week we saw how Little Red Riding Hood dealt with the wolf. See what happens to the wolf in the Three Little Pigs. Think about how Roald Dahl gives each character their own distinct voice. Even written down, you could work out which character was talking.

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Three Little Pigs – Revolting Rhymes – CLICK HERE!

Alternative Fairytales

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Today we began our Alternative Fairytale planning. This is actually a trickier job than it looks. To be successful, we have to capture the key features of the original fairytale, whilst adding a new twist which will grab the reader’s attention.

We watched, listened to and read some great alternatives. Many were based around ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, using the wolf’s perspective.

Roald Dahl does this excellently, using his poem below, in which there’s an interesting twist at the end:

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Roald Dahl poem – CLICK HERE

The film ‘Hoodwinked’ also cleverly adds a twist – making the wolf in fact a ‘goodie’. We watched clip from this also:

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Hoodwinked – Click Here!

Next week, we will continue to develop our plans further, and look at how we can structure our writing within the form of a play.

See you in the morning,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice