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Wednesday, 26 February 2020

A Rock and a Hard Place

We are learning how to summarize  the text.

This story is about a boy who has to make a decision between two rugby teams the Springboks & the All Blacks.In the beginning his coach is having to help him, starting off with a small saying "You're stuck between a rock and a hard place" (Meaning:Having to choose between one thing and the other) The boy has recently moved from south-africa to New Zealand he also used to support the springboks but now that he has moved to a different country he has had something on his mind lately.


In his class his class mates ask him "Who's your favourite rugby player?" and for this boy it's hard to choose because he recently supported the Springboks but his class mates support the All Blacks so his response to that is "Richie McCaw".


In school,At home,On the field, Everywhere.
He has always had that thought on his mind 'Which Team do i support?' the boy and his father has ALWAYS supported the Springboks but now that he has moved to New Zealand he doesn't know if he should still support the Springboks anymore.


After dinner his mother tucked the boy in his bed, after reading another chapter of Harry Potter the boy asked his mother "Which Team should i support mum?" his mother looked at him with a small smile "I know you and your father supported the Springboks but now that we have moved, you should support some other team then the Springboks" she said her last goodbye's and left the boy clueless.


As the boy looked into his side he saw his cat ginger and white laying on his pillow slowly falling asleep.As he took a grip of his cat the cat purred and gave him a small look, "You don't have to choose to be Ginger or White, you can be both.I wish i was you so i could be both" the boy said slowly falling asleep, as the night went on the boy finally realised he himself could be both.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Jarreka,

    I really like the way you retold this story using your own words and including some of your own ideas about the text. Fantastic! Next time, you can summarise just the key ideas in a couple of paragraphs. E.g. the middle two paragraphs could be condensed into a sentence about how it was really bothering him and he asked lots of people for help.

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