SHORT STORY READING! 12/4
Good morning students! All of you have been doing so well, and we will be taking a short winter recess very soon from classes for the holidays, which I am sure you all are very excited about! But before we get too ahead of ourselves, I have another short story for each of you to read, and summarize for me. Write a summary of what happens in the story when you reblog this post... and I hope everyone decides to work hard and finish strong before our winter break!
The Grandmother plaited her granddaughter’s hair and then she said, “Get your lunch.
Put it in your bag. Get your apple. You come straight back after school, straight home here.
Listen to the teacher,” she said. “Do what she say.”
Her grandfather was out on the step. He walked down the path with her and out onto the
footpath. He said to a neighbor, “Our granddaughter goes to school. She lives with us now.”
“She’s fine,” the neighbor said. “She’s terrific with her two plaits in her hair.”
“And clever,” the grandfather said. “Writes every day in her book.”
“She’s fine,” the neighbor said.
The grandfather waited with his granddaughter by the crossing and then he said, “Go to
school. Listen to the teacher. Do what she say.”
When the granddaughter came home from school her grandfather was hoeing around the
cabbages. Her grandmother was picking beans. They stopped their work.
“You bring your book home?” the grandmother asked.
“Get your book then. Read your story.”
The granddaughter took her book from her schoolbag and opened it.
“I killed all the butterflies,” she read. “This is me and this is all the butterflies.”
“And your teacher like your story, did she?”
“She said butterflies are beautiful creatures. They hatch out and fly in the sun. The
butterflies visit all the pretty flowers, she said. They lay their eggs and then they die. You don’t
kill butterflies, that’s what she said.”
The grandmother and the grandfather were quiet for a long time, and their granddaughter,
holding the book, stood quite still in the warm garden.
“Because you see,” the grandfather said, “your teacher, she buy all her cabbages from the
supermarket and that’s why.”
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