School Work

The following story was written by Jacob this past week for English. The assignment was to write a story with a main character,problem,solution,and dialog using quotation marks.

Missing Kayak

By Jacob

Grade 3

One Day Jacob was hiking near El Dorado lake. He saw something yellow in the tall grass. "What is that?" he thought. Wading into the grass,he found a kayak. How did it get there?

Back at camp, Jacob told his Dad about the kayak. They went to tell the park ranger about it. At the ranger's office Jacob told him,

"I found a kayak in some tall grass".

The ranger said, "A man just brought me a flyer about a missing kayak. Did it look like this?",he asked showing a picture to Jacob.

"Yes", said Jacob,"That's the one I found".

The ranger called the man and he came to the office. He told Jacob,

"Thank you for finding my kayak! I own a sporting goods store. Why don't you come in sometime and choose any knife you want as a reward?"

"Thank you sir!" said Jacob

The End



Those of you who know our family can tell this is a fiction story based on reality. Last August we had two kayaks stolen from a lake we were camping at. We e-mailed fliers to all the state parks and put them up at all the gas stations and bait stores between the lake and our house. About a month later the sheriff we had been working with, called to say that a camper had found them hanging in a tree at the lake where they were stolen.


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