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Directions: Read the two versions of Little Miss Muffet. Then retell the other nursery stories
from a different point of view.The King’s Men: Humpty Dumpty was sitting on the front wall outside
of the palace. We asked him to get down. He did not listen. Suddenly, a
huge gust of wind came and knocked the big egg guy backwards. He
cracked into 1,000 pieces. We tried very hard to put Humpty Dumpty
back together, but some of the pieces wouldn’t stick together again.Humpty Dumpty: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Jack:I didn’t want to go with Jill to fetch water. Mother said I had to
help her carry it home. We filled the bucket from the well. Jill pushed
me and I fell down and broke my crown and Jill came tumbling after.Jill: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Miss Muffet:I was sitting on my tuffet eating my curds and
whey. Suddenly, along came a spider. He sat right beside me
and I was frightened away!
The Spider:I was minding my own business, spinning my web.
In front of me, I saw a little girl. She was sitting in my corner
eating breakfast. I slid down my web to say hello, when she
screamed and ran away. I was very frightened!79
Na m e : _______________________________________ Date: _____________________In other words... there’s more than one way to
tell the same story.