Week 14 Storytelling: The Tortoise meet Two Friendly Ducks

Sit down and let me tell you about the story of a Tortoise who simply just wanted to get out of her home, out of her hole.

Marie was a simple tortoise. She only knew her own shell and now, she wanted a new home and a new way of life. She wanted to have a bigger life, a life filled with adventure and promise. So she set on her way to find a new life, although she had no clue how she would be able to accomplish that, only that a tortoise of her abilities surely could find a great life somewhere!

She began down the trail through the woods in the search of something new, whistling as she went. Down the way a bit she saw two ducks talking to each other as the walked towards her. She started walking quickly toward them, well as quickly as a simple tortoise could, as she was excited to see another animal on the lonely trail. The ducks hadn't seemed to notice her yet, but she was determined to get to them.

After some quick tortoise speed, Marie reached the ducks and smiled at them as she huffed and puffed. She looked at the two of them and asked,

"Can you guys bring me a new life?"

The ducks looked at her and felt bad for her so they looked at each other and said,

"Well, we can help you fly! If you grab onto that stick right there real tight, we can take you real high in the sky so you can see the whole forest. But, we must warn you, you cannot talk while we are up in the sky and you can't even open your mouth so that the stick does not fall out!"

Marie was so excited! She was going to fly high up in the sky. So she grabbed the stick and clenched her mouth with all of her might as the ducks grabbed hold and flew her higher and higher.

But as she was flying through the sky, Marie heard from below,

"A miracle is seen! There goes the flying tortoise queen!"

Well, Marie thought that was exactly what she was now. After all, she had to be the first flying tortoise in the whole wide world! So she exclaimed, 

"The queen! I'm truly that, without a joke!"

But as she opened her mouth, her grip on the stick was released and she started to fall through the sky as fast as could be. The ducks sighed as the tortoise had not heeded their good advice. 

Author's Note: For this week, I decided to rewrite the poem The Tortoise and the Two Ducks from the La Fontaine unit because I liked the story but the verse form was sort of hard to read for me. I wanted to do it in the storyteller format where someone was telling the story. I also decided to end the story really bluntly because I feel like the tortoise falling would end the story abruptly. 

Image Information: The Tortoise and the Ducks from Youtube