[LM_NET] Share: ELEM Humor

[Linda Martin <lindamartin423@GMAIL.COM>]

It is genre time.  I tell several different versions of a story in which I
am coming to school and a deer runs across the road in front of my car.  Car
hits the ditch.  In one, the deer runs to my aid and in an English accent
asks if he can help or call someone for me - *fantasy*.  In another, I call
AAA myself and am pulled from the ditch and make my way to school, late but
unharmed - *realistic fiction.  *I tried a new one today.  I was driving my
horse-drawn carriage to school over the dirt roads.  The deer bounded across
in front of the horse, causing him to rear and tip over the carriage.  I
stumbled out, tearing my petticoat and tripped over my hoop skirt - *historical
fiction.*  Instead of guessing historical fiction, a boy raised his hand and
blurted out, "I know this!  It's Cinderella fiction!"  Gotta love 'em.

-- 
Linda Martin
Teacher Librarian and Storyteller
2007 Georgia Library Media Specialist of the Year
Gainesville, GA
lindamartin423@gmail.com
www.lindamartin.us

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