Round Robin

The kitten sulked in the cart, upset that Mamma Cat had refused to buy him his favorite candy.

The cat thought: "So much for being good. All I wanted was some candy!"  He continued to wonder what went wrong and why his mom didn't reward him. 

The cat went his mom and started to beg. "Please! Please let me have some candy!" He didn't know if he could take much more with out candy.

The little cat cried, whined, screamed and threw a fit until his mom was so fed up that she sent him to bed without any supper (and without any candy).

For my story I chose to use this picture of a cat because I thought it was adorable. I wanted the caption to be something fun that captured the attitude of that little kitten. I also liked the idea of the candy because I have that experience with my own mom many times. I thought that this was an interesting assignment. This is the first time that I wasn't really sure what the purpose of it was. I am not sure what I learned from doing it. I also think that the execution over email was rather difficult. I mean I never received one of the tiny stories. However, I think that if it was done during classroom time it could be done a lot simpler. I think it could be a useful exercise in helping students to learn to be concise. They have only a few sentences to tell a story. This could help students learn what is really important and to choose their subjects carefully. I also think it could be an interesting studying in plot structure. You could talk about how it developed when interrupted by different authors.