Tall Tale Writing Practice by Ms. Thompson

Instructions

thompsm2 — 2025-04-12 16:44:12 UTC

Write one sentence from a personal story, but make it exaggerated like a tall tale
Then, write the real version of what actually happened
Look at your classmates’ posts and comment on:
- What makes their sentence a tall tale?
- What specific words or details are exaggerated?

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I went to school early because a rocket ship floated me to school. I went to school early because the bus came early.

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my friend ate a lot banana and he turn in to monkiy and I said omg wh are like this haaa? tttttttttttttttffffffffffffgggggggggg

when i went outside i thought it was a perfect day outside but when i saw it was raining dags and cats outside so i was running not to get wet.

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I was so late for school that it took a million years to get there and I saw flying chickens and dinosaurs. what really happened was that the school was 20 miles away from my house and I was late for class.

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last week my bus did not stop and so my dad have to drop me up and I miss a subject

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I fell off the monkey bars because there were some snail slob on the bar

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First I was playing with bubbles and then I put them away and went on the monkey bars then I slipped off the monkey bars

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why their are cat and dog are fighting I was scarr hay eat haaaaaaaaaa?

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I slept to late and I went to school and there was flying elephants and now I was late

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okay I was dared to ride my bike on the the deepes hill on the block I did I go so fast I 1 felt that I was floating I was going to fast

the real virison was I went to fast and I fell

One time I went to a hotel because.

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there was a lion in my home and there was a cheetah in my room.

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I was going to New York city from milwakee.

it was a long long drive it feels like a million year to get to New York city

the reel thing that happen to me is it was a long long long time

I was late for school because i took a late nap and it was raining

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when I went outside it looked like a perfect day but suddenly gorelas started to run for me

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my brother was chaseing me

I was boxing and someone threw a water bottle it felt like a anvil

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someone just threw a water bottle and it just hurt really bad

I was in a golf cart and a nirf gun fell on my head and I had a cut. I was in a golf cart and a really big nirf gun fell on my head I had a cut that was gushing blod.

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I go in my school but there is red light

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when I was driving my dad's car we were gowing to the store but third wer olny dog's and cat's

2025-04-15 12:51:30 UTC

I was doing the munkey bare the menkey bare was like a slipper slimy bare

the reel thing happen is it was rely sliply.

2025-04-15 12:51:31 UTC

I was late to school because there was cats and dogs were every where I couldn't even see that's how many cats and dogs. The real story was that I slept in

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when I was trying to take the last icecreem last night, but a bat came in and snatched it!! and the worst part is that his whole family came too! they quickly ate the wrapper and was about to eat the ice cream it self!! before that I quickly took it away from him and ran away fast to my mom's room!

last night there was 16 ice creem I took one of the ice creem making it 15 and I don't know if my brother is took one yet.(I hope he does not)

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under tale

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I was hiking in 2023 and we were at a moution place and we took a moution that was super long and we got lost and...there were flying cats & dogs outside... it took use...1 hour to get out of the...Mountion

2025-04-15 12:53:43 UTC

roblox forsaken

I woke up late and I going to school and cats and dog were raneing herd I was late for class.

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I saw cats and dogs falling out of the clouds that I almost got hit but I grab it.

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I ate a lot of candy and I got cavities

I had a time when I found a talking monkey I gave him a banana then we became friends so we I ate a banana him him and we were dancing till he had to go back to the jungle

2025-04-15 12:58:42 UTC

I went to a zoo and gave a monkey a banana so I watched him in jungle themed cage

and I catch them alll

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