Greg's+Short+stories

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Reading task 1 Little Red Riding Hood Beginning – Little Red Riding Hood is asked by her mum to take a basket of food to her sick grandma and is told to stay on the path while going through the woods. Problem – In the woods a wolf comes up to Little Red Riding Hood and asks her where she is going. She says she is going to her sick grandma’s house to give her the food in the basket. Problem seems to be resolved – The wolf leaves and heads in the direction of Little Red Riding Hood’s grandma’s house New Problem - Little Red Riding Hood arrives at grandma’s house and finds out it is the wolf in grandma’s clothes and the wolf has eaten grandma. Solution – Little Red Riding Hood screams, the woodcutter comes and cuts the wolf’s head off. Moral of the story – Don’t talk to strangers. Reading Task Three As the small blue clock struck twelve o’clock a small china doll was bought by a small girl named Mary. Mary put her new doll inside a small box which she carried while skipping happily on her way home. At night Mary put her doll on the windowsill next to her bed so the doll could look out the window at the night sky. In the morning Mary took her doll to school to show her friends. On the way to school her doll fell out of her bag and landed in the gutter. Mary didn’t realize and kept on walking. Later that day an old lady drove past on her mobility scooter and spotted the doll in the gutter. She reached down and picked up the small doll by her hair and noted that it would be a great gift for her granddaughter. At the old lady’s house the doll was placed in a small box that was tightly wrapped up with a shoelace. For a long time the small doll could not see anything and really missed her previous owner. One day the doll felt movement and suddenly saw light. It was a miracle, she was reunited with her first owner, Mary.

Reading Task Four In was a normal morning for the Ginger Ninja, getting up early and stopping a bank robber by shooting lightning out of his hands. The Ginger Ninja also known as Connor, was getting on the bus for the first time at his new school when the boy in the front seat punches his mate on the arm and whispers something to him. Soon everybody on the bus was hitting each other on the arm and saying “ranga punch.” Connor didn’t know what was going on but he knew it was something to do with him having red hair. Later that day people walking past Connor would whisper something to someone else just loud enough for Connor to hear like “Is his hair for real?” For the rest of the day Connor got the same comments and it was getting worse. After school a quiet boy with black hair approached Connor. He told Connor that he had the same problem when he first started at that school so he dyed his hair black, problem solved. So after school Connor went to the local two dollar shop and bought some black hair dye. Connor dyed his hair black thought all of his troubles were over, unfortunately they weren’t. Connor heard a loud scream from just outside his bedroom window. In a flash Connor became the Ginger Ninja and ran outside. It was a bank robbery, a masked figure was holding a gun at the banker and past a note. The Ginger Ninja ran into the bank and the bank robber turned around. As always the Ginger Ninja remained calm and pointed his finger at the bank robber but nothing happened. The Ginger Ninja tried again but as hard as he tried he could not shoot lightning out of his finger. The bank robber ran past the Ginger Ninja with a bag of money and down an alley way. The Ginger Ninja went home disappointed in him self because the bank robber got away. He could not understand why his powers worked earlier that morning but they didn’t work now, then it hit him, dying his hair black must have caused his powers to be blocked. Connor now had a problem on his hands. If he had red hair he would get teased at his school but he would still be able to use his powers. Where as if he had black hair he would be a normal kid at school and wouldn’t be teased but he would no longer be able to use his powers. Connor made a decision not to care what other people thought of him and would go back to having red hair. It turned out to be a good decision, the next day at school he was treated normally and was never teased about his hair again. It even turned out there was other red haired kids in the school that had dyed their hair black and one by one there became more red hairs in the school.