This lesson uses a familiar fairy tale to teach writing. It is designed to emphasize using varied sentence patterns in writing. Students will demonstrate an understanding of varied sentence patterns by retelling the fairy tale "The Three Little Pigs" in twenty-six sentences.

Students will study the literary genre of the short story and examine how, through writing, an author can comment directly/indirectly on our society as a whole. Hopefully, the students will develop an awareness of the problems/concerns facing our society and an appreciation of how a skilled writer can mirror society's ills and sometimes offer solutions for the problems that plague us.

AT AGE THREE Drew Barrymore knew she would be an actress. After all, this was the family business: Her grandfather John, her great-aunt Ethel and great-uncle Lionel were all titans of Hollywood. So it was no surprise that Drew became a child star in Steven Spielberg's EX: The Extra-Terrestrial. But by age 13 she'd landed in rehab, ad¬dicted to alcohol and cocaine.

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