Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Summarizing Rumpelstiltskin with Room 6

In fifth grade, we practiced the Somebody / Wanted / But / So / Then method of summarizing a story. Here is what the students came up with for Rumpelstiltskin after I read them Paul O. Zelinsky's retelling:

Source: http://www.paulozelinsky.com/rumpelstiltskin.html


The miller
wanted to impress the king,
but he didn't have anything interesting to tell.
So he told a lie about his daughter.
Then his daughter got trapped. - J.T.


The king
wanted lots and lots of gold,
but he didn't know any one that can give him gold.
So the miller told him that his daughter can make gold with straw.
Then the king put the girl into a room with straw. - K.A.


The king 
wanted a girl to spin gold out of straw.
But the girl did not know how to spin gold out of straw.
So the little man helped her and spun gold out of straw.
Then the king thought the girl made the gold, so he married her. - H.D.


The miller's daughter
wanted to survive,
but she had to spin straw into gold to live.
So she got help from R., who could spin straw into gold.
Then, seeing the riches of this woman, the king married the miller's daughter, without the knowledge that she did not spin the straw. - S.C.


The queen
wanted to keep her baby,
but she [had] promised R. that he could take the baby.
So he gave her three days to figure out his name.
Then she told him what his name was, after her servant told her, and kept the baby.  - J.P.


R.
wanted the baby,
but the servant found his name.
So the queen said his name.
Then he ran away on his spoon. - K.G.

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