Week Thirteen: Reading Diary

Part A: I read English Fairytale Units (1) this week. I enjoyed it and found the stories interesting. One in Part A that was particularly interesting was Mouse and Mouser. In the story, a cat and a mouse share a dialogue about how the mouse finds a silver sixpence and uses it to go to the market and buy a pudding (which is actually meat). In the story the mouse leaves the pudding in the window to cool and in the end the cat pounces on the mouse to eat him. I thought it was really interesting because of the writing style it was written in. It's a lot like a rhyme they chant back and force, reusing the term "good body, good body." It really gave a different style and overall feel to the story.

Part B: I really enjoyed reading Henny Penny in this section. The story is about a bunch of animals (with goofy names) that all go to tell the king that the sky is falling. A hen, rooster, turkey, goose and duck all fall trap to the fox, who convinces them that there is a shortcut to the king through his cave. When the rooster, turkey, goose and duck enter he quickly kills them. The hen escapes only because the rooster calls out after only being injured but not killed. I vaguely remember reading this story as a child.