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Point of View: The Three Little Pigs
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What's the story of the Three Little Pigs?
Point of View: The Three Little Pigs
Leona Marie Guthrie
Reagan High School
San Antonio
Title: Point of View: The Three Little Pigs
Goal: To sort through various subjective versions of an event to arrive at a objective story about it.
Assignment:
- Can you sift through the various sides of the stories and report the news accurately without bias? Try it. Remember to get quotes from your characters. (You can be creative with your characters' quotes, but remember the story itself must contain no bias.) Write a news article of 250-500 words.
- Extra Credit: Find a copy of "The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf" and report your findings of the trial.
Materials
- Related worksheet
- "The Uses of Enchantment, The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales" by Bruno Bettelheim, Vintage Books, New York, 1975