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1. Characters:
- Freddy
- Mother
- the purple
man
Main Character(s):
Freddy, the purple
man, Freddy's mother
Setting:
Freddy's
home and the
market
Narrative
Strategies:
Sequencing
(Title of Fiction)
Freddy and the
Giant Tomato
Plot
Summary
New Vocabulary:
cash - market trade - starve
Freddy lived in the forest with his mother and their
pet panda, Pandora.
One day, Freddy's mother had no cash,so she asked
him to sell Pandora at the market to buy food and
seeds.
On his way to the market, Freddy met a little purple man.
The purple man convinced Freddy to trade Pandora for
magical tomato seeds.
When Freddy got home, he showed his mother the tomato seeds. His
mother got angry."Now we will starve," she said.
The seed grew into a giant tomato."Sell it," his mother said.
Freddy rolled the tomato to the market. He saw the purple man riding
Pandora.
The purple man wanted to trade the tomato for a magic brush. When
Freddy did not accept, the man jumped onto the tomato. The man and the
tomato rolled away down the hill.
As Freddy rode the panda home, he told his mother that he could let
people ride Pandora for cash.
From then on, Freddy had plenty of money. And he never saw the purple
man again.
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