6Traits Digest #161 - Saturday, March 18, 2000 Could this become a mini-lesson? by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Re: 6Traits- Could this become a mini-lesson? by "Debbie =86o=86"---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Could this become a mini-lesson? From: "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 14:09:57 -0700 A Fable by Jon Scieszka exclusively for barnesandnoble.com: The secret to writing fables is to take a situation, change the names of the people to animal names, tell what happened, and then add a moral. Voila. You have a fable. I don't remember exactly where I got the idea for this fable, but it just kind of came to me.... YAK AND EMU Yak promised Emu he would write a fable for her to give to barnesandnoble.com. He promised he would have it by Monday. On Monday, Emu called Yak and asked for the fable.=20 "I'm just fixing up the ending," said Yak. "I'll email it to you Tuesday."=20 On Tuesday, Emu called Yak and asked for the fable. "Oh man," said Yak. "My modem just died. I'll get it to you on Wednesday."=20 On Wednesday, Emu called Yak and asked for the fable.=20 "What bad timing," said Yak. "My whole system just crashed. I'll get it to you on Thursday."=20 On Thursday, Emu called Yak and asked for the fable.=20 "You're not going to believe this," said Yak. "But my dog just ate my hard drive." And at that exact moment, Yak's pants burst into flames and he had to come up with a fable right then and there.=20 MORAL: Liar, liar, pants on fire. =97Jon Scieszka ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- Could this become a mini-lesson? From: "Debbie =86o=86" Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 00:02:46 GMT Oooh! I LOVE Jon Scieszka's stories! This is SUPER! Thanks! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- End of 6Traits Digest -- To unsubscribe, send any message at all to: 6Traits-off@. Archive of past digests is at: http://6Traits.Cyberspaces.net/archive/?_NO_DATETIME