Thursday, July 7, 2011

The Witches Guide to Cooking with Children

The Witch's Guide to Cooking With Children
Exposition:  Sol, a clever kid who is interested in Science, and his pesty sister Connie have just moved to a town with very few children.
Conflict:  In order to get an inheritance, their parents want to get rid of the children with the help of a witch.
Rising Action:  Sol suspects their is something different about his friendly neighbor and decides to investigate about her.
Climax:  After the children break in to the witch's house, they are distracted for a moment and the witch finds them escaping through her upstairs window.
Falling Action:  Connie was captured by the witch and was about to be eaten but Sol helps her escape with one of his scientific inventions.
Resolution:  The children push the witch into a firepit and escape thinking they finished her.

Literary Qualities
1.  Style and Language - The author had control of all the facts of language to reinforce the witch's part of the story.
2.  Plot- The conflict was engaging and dramatic making the reader care about the events in the story and the characters. 

Mcgowan, K. (2009). The witch's guide to cooking with children. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

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