Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Pied Piper of Hamelin/The Rapper

Original Paragraph:
The stranger took from his belt a little set of shepherd's pipes, put them to his lips, and began to play a tune. Immediately, the rats on the street pricked up their ears and hurried toward the sound. The stranger began walking toward the edge of town, piping his tune all the while. From every shop, house, and shed all over the town, the rats poured until the streets were filled with them. They followed the piper out of the town and down the road to the edge of the river. Then the rats jumped in and were carried far away by the rushing water.

Now I am going to re-write this paragraph with this week's vocabulary words:
The rapper with his hair in total disarray, and his baggy pants about to fall off his hips, was swaggering down the street in complete oblivion. All of a sudden he began to vacillate! His shoulders started to loosen up and he started to break-dance. He started out just doing moves at random, but then his moves turned in to a sort of configuration. Teenagers started noticing this unbelievably agile dancer and couldn't resist following him. He bopped on down the street toward the local bar, rapping unstoppably. From every apartment, trailer house, and condo, teenagers filled the streets, following his every move. They followed him all the way to the house of the devil. Then the delinquents, being influenced all the while, followed him through the door and thus, steered their lives onto the pathway of destruction.


(My vocabulary words are in red)

1 comment:

Magistra Z. said...

Delightful, Katie. I especially like the sentence that uses the sound-effect of echoing bopping in the word unstoppable.