Student Writing of the Week 3-5-12

I was pleased to see that this week's student writer was inspired by our class novel, "The Indian in the Cupboard."  In our class novel, one of the character speaks with an accent and Lynne Reid Banks, the author, writes it into the dialogue.  Michael also does a great job of showing how an individual might say a word differently!  Don't turn in any spelling corrections for the words that are said in an accent.  They are written that way on purpose.  Here's Chapter 3 of Michael's story!

A Virus' Life

Chapter 3

by Michael

“He doesen’t know, he doesen’t know I can mess up two computers at once.  I bet he’s just jealous that I’m better.”  Little Terror tells himself.  Right now he is sitting on a tall chip, watching the others.  They must be planning something.  He thought.  Something to get me back.  He stopped, he noticed one of them was gone. 

“Howdy,” 

Little Terror jumped.  He turned around.  “Oh, hello.”  Little Terror did not know this virus. 

“A didin’t know ya’ll were in thees here contraption.” 

Little Terror can easily tell he has a STRONG Texan accent, though he finds it hard to understand.  “I see you have an accent.” He says.  “But I don’t see where you’ve rolled in from, so, where from?” He asks. 

“A come from anothe contraption an was moved from mhome just bout an hour ago.” He replies with his accent.  “So whare those fellows?”  He asks

“Those are the viruses who made fun of me, they want to get back at me somehow.” He replies

“Oh, so ya’ll sittin ere waitin fa the guys to do somethin suspicious?” He says.  “Hold on, now two of them are gone!”

Little Terror gasps.  He wonders where they went and why, maybe to catch him?  Then suddenly he can’t see anything, it goes black.  Then he goes unconscious… To Be Continued