Jack and the Beanstalk Retold

Fee, Fie, Foe, Fum...

A plant inspires a tale retold...

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Jack: Unbelievable. It appeared overnight. Gotta be a story in this.

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Kris: The beanstalk? Jack arrived at work by bicycle one hot summer morning.

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Jack: A huge plant had appeared overnight. Grew out of the stormwater grate.

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Kris: Jack looked up into the leaves and saw a shining mango. He hadn’t brought any lunch so he thought, “That’ll be my lunch.”

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Jack: Up he climbed, up and up.

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Kris: But he didn’t seem to be getting any closer. Suddenly, he realised something. The beanstalk was growing as fast as he was climbing.

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Jack: And carrying him up with it. The ground was now far away.

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Kris: And the shining mango was just as far off.

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Voice-over

Choose an ending to complete the story as a sort of “Choose your own Adventure”. Remember those?

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(a) Jack woke up from the dream.

(b) The shining mango fell, Jack caught it and climbed safely down.

(c) A giant appeared and ate Jack for his lunch.

(d) It was a genetically modified beanstalk which grew mangos.

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