Good afternoon, class! As most of you know I am
Bob, Tommy's dad. Today I am going to tell you a story about one of
Sinbad's greatest adventures.
This was Sinbad's
first voyage in years. He found a ship that was set to sail to
Baghdad.
"Where is Baghdad?" ask
Sarah.
"Baghdad is in Iraq."
"That is where my daddy is in war," said Jack.
"Ok, class, back to the story."
Sinbad got
on the ship and sailed to many different islands on his way to Baghdad
making trades. He traded fruit for spices, spices for fur, and fur for
jewels. Sinbad had
all he could possibly need at the time. The ship had one more island to
stop at. This island was the best of all. It had big beautiful trees
full of fruit. It also had beautiful streams of fresh water. Sinbad
and his crew walked around for hours collecting fruit and water. All of
the walking made Sinbad very
tired, so he decided to lie down for a few minutes and take a nap. Not
long after Sinbad fell
asleep, a coconut fell and knocked him on the head. He jumped up and
looked around. He was all alone. He ran to the cliff where the ship had
been
docked and it was gone. As he looked around the horizon, he could see
the ship sailing off.
They had forgotten about him.
Sinbad
gathered his belongings and decided to search for help. He walked
through caves, over hills and across rivers. While climbing to the top
of the highest hill on the island, Sinbad
found a big egg. This egg was as big as a car.
"As big as a little car?" asked
Jamie.
"Or as big as a big
car?" asked Leslie.
It was as big as a big car. Sinbad had
heard many stories as a child about a big bird called a Roc. As he
was looking
around the egg, the sky suddenly became dark. Sinbad
looked overhead and saw the bird flying in to sit on the egg. The bird
sat on the egg with Sinbad
under its wing. Sinbad
looked at the enormous feet and had an idea. He was going to tie
himself to the bird's feet and hope that when it flew off it would
carry
him off the island. The next morning when Sinbad
opened his eyes all he could see was the ocean under him. His plan
had worked. Sinbad flew
with the bird all the way to the next island. When they were
approaching the island, Sinbad
could not believe his eyes. His ship docked close by. He was so
excited that he cut the rope and fell to the water. He did not realize
he was so high in the air and did a belly buster. It knocked the air
right out of him.
"I did a belly buster one time said Tommy. It hurt"
I remember that, Tommy. Back to the story. It is
almost over.
Sinbad made
such a big splash that his crew came running over and rescued him from
the water. They were all happy to see Sinbad and
could not believe his story. Soon after they set sail for home.
Well, class, that is all for this week, I hope to
see you all next week.
Authors note: I changed the story from Sinbad's
point of view to Tommy's dad telling the story. I really like the
different troubles that Sinbad gets
into. I kept a lot of the information the same as the original story. I
used the same setting and the big bird. I really like that Sinbad
thinks to tie himself to the feet and fly away. I added Sinbad
getting woken up by a coconut falling and hitting him on the head. I
thought it would be funny. I also added more details about Sinbad
searching for a way off the island. I changed the ending of the story
completely to fit it into the assignment. In the original ending the
bird lands on an island and Sinbad cuts
himself loose. Sinbad then
finds himself in more trouble, being trapped in a valley full of giant
snakes. I did not use this because it will
make for a good part in my next story. I also added the part with Sinbad
reuniting with his sailing crew at the end. I think that adding this
will make for an easy start to my next story. There are so many good
details in each story it is hard to pick which ones to use.
Bibliography:
The Arabian
Nights Entertainment (1898) edited by Andrew Lang:
Ship image from
Story Singer website.
Eagle image from by
Stefan Mart.
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