2A

The True Story of 2A and the Three Little Pigs!

Over the last few weeks 2A has been putting our persuasive writing skills to the test and what better way to do this than by hearing the other side of the story!

We read The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka, which tells the story from the perspective of Alexander T. Wolf. Otherwise known as the “Big Bad Wolf”. But according to Alexander, he was not quite as bad as everyone thinks…

Alexander explains that he was simply suffering from a terrible sniffle and a tickly sneeze while trying to bake a birthday cake for his grandmother. When he ran out of sugar, he visited his neighbours, the three little pigs. Unfortunately, his enormous sneeze caused the pigs' houses to collapse. Alexander insists that this was definitely not his fault and believes those pesky pigs houses should have been made from stronger materials!

After reading the story, we put ourselves in Alexander T. Wolf's shoes and explored how we could persuade someone to see things from his point of view.

We learned that a persuasive letter needs a clear structure, including:

• A greeting. Who are we writing to?
• A reason for writing. Why are we writing to the reader?
• What happened? Explaining our side of the story. How did you end up where you are?
• How can the reader help? What do we want them to do?

The tricky part was remembering to write from someone else's perspective. We had to think carefully about what Alexander would say, what he might feel and most importantly, how he would try to convince others that he wasn't the Big Bad Wolf after all!

We certainly had some very convincing lawyers-in-the-making in 2A!

Check out a few of our persuasive pieces below! We think Alexander T. Wolf would be pretty impressed…