CREATE YOUR OWN TALL TALE Giant with little peopleRemember, the key to a tall tale is exaggeration. Make the characters & setting more extreme than they are. Stretch the limits of what is there and what you think can happen. Your first step is to choose a tall tale hero. Remember, the key is to exaggerate your hero's characteristics. Make him or her bigger or stronger or faster or smarter than anyone else you know! Let him or her step right out of your imagination.

You will need an adventure for your tall tale hero. Once again, the key is to exaggerate. The main event of a tall tale is not something that can happen in real life.

Highlight the story pattern below, copy and paste into your word processor. Use the story pattern to help in writing your own Tall Tale.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion