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A Variety of Endings. Shortcut by Donald Crews. We walked home without a word. We didn’t tell Bigmama . We didn’t tell Mama. We didn’t tell anyone. We didn’t talk about what happened for a very long time. And we didn’t take the shortcut again. End with final action. Bigmamas by D. Crews.
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Shortcut by Donald Crews We walked home without a word. We didn’t tell Bigmama. We didn’t tell Mama. We didn’t tell anyone. We didn’t talk about what happened for a very long time. And we didn’t take the shortcut again. End with final action
Bigmamas by D. Crews Some nights even now, I think that I might wake up in the morning and be at Bigmama’s with the whole summer ahead of me. End with a memory that lingers
The Paper Bag Princess by R. Munsch “Ronald, “ said Elizabeth, “Your clothes are really pretty and your hair is very neat. You look like a real prince, but you are a bum.” They didn’t get married after all. Ends with lesson learned/decision reached
Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting Then I remember the bird. It took a while, but a door opened. And when the bird left, when it flew free, I know it was singing. End with thoughts or feelings
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds Vashti smiled. She handed the boy a blank sheet of paper. “Show me.” The boy’s pencil shook as he drew his line. Vashti stared at the boy’s squiggle. And then she said…”sign it.” Bookends
Ends with hope, wish, dream In the end, we were not able to observe the fish in our classroom aquariums. The idea was to study them to see how they interact and what happens when new organisms were added. Unfortunately, all the fish had died within three days. Hopefully my students learned that even when things don’t work out in science, we can analyze and hypothesize why we got certain results and scientists don’t always have all the answers.