2nd Graders:
These 2nd grade ESL students read "The Wings of the Butterfly"
by Aaron Shepard. This is their retelling of the story.
"The Wings of the Butterfly"
A Tale of the Amazon Rainforest by Aaron Shepard
Reviewed by: Hassan, Jimmy, Lowen, Sana, Bogdan
Once upon a time in the forest there was a monkey who had friends
and some of his friends were tigers, birds, toucans, jaguars, cheetahs,
and frogs.
In this forest there lived a girl named Chimidyue and she was nice
to the animals in the forest. One day she saw a morpho- butterfly
and she chased it and she appeared at the middle of the forest.
She saw a bird and monkeys were getting food. The monkeys found
Chimidyue and climbed down the tree and turned into humans. She
told the monkeys that she was lost. The monkeys said that they would
help her the next day. They invited her to come to a party with
them.
The Lord Monkey saw Chimidyue and was angry. They other monkeys
said that she was their friend. That night, they danced and had
a parade. When Chimidyue was sleeping, the Lord Monkey was snoring
loud and said he would eat her up. Then she screamed and woke him
up. She ran away all the way to the river. Then she cried, "How
will I cross the river?"
Chimidyue saw a morpho butterfly. The butterfly made her into a
butterfly. And she crossed the river, turned back into a human and
went back home.
And now she has the wings of the butterfly in her heart and she
lived happily ever after.
Reviewed by: Young Ki
Chimidyue was a girl who lived in a house in the Rainforest. She
was playing. She saw a butterfly. She ran after the butterfly. She
was lost. She needed to go home.
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