The Big Orange Splot ( Brendan's retelling)
Setting:
Characters: Mr. Plumbean, (* the guy) Mr. Plumbean's neighbors, (*the bird)
It takes place in Mr. Plumbean's neighborhood at night and during the day.
Theme:
Mr. Plumbean paints his house differently from the rest of the neighbors to show the kind of person he is.
Plot Episodes:
(* It was about a splot.)
· 1. A seagull drops a can of paint over Mr. Plumbean's house. (* “No one knew why”)
· (* People went out and said you should paint your house. They were tired of looking at the splot.)
· 2. Mr. Plumbean painted his house many different colors. (* Blue) It looked like a rainbow. His neighbors thought that he lost his mind.
· The next night he built a clock tower.
· His neighbors were not very happy with the way his house looked.
· 3. Mr. Plumbean added palm trees, (*jungle stuff), a hammock and even an alligator.
· 4. One of his neighbors went over to his house to talk to him about changing his house back so it would match the other houses in the neighborhood.
· 5. The man instead changed his house to look like a ship. (* Neighbors came out and said he was crazy.)
· 6. Each night different people would sit and talk to Mr. Plumbean and then they would go home and change their house to fit their own dreams.
· (* A stranger comes by and says the street is not right but they say the street is us and we are it.)
Resolution:
The street had houses that looked like the people's dreams and they were proud of their houses. The story ends with each house was designed to reflect the dreams of the owner.
*Problem: when people kept changing house and other people didn't like it.
*Solution: When everyone else was changing their houses.
* Student added words to their retelling that were important details. The numbers in red represent the order the student retold the story.