Journalism Activity

In journalism today, Anya Luscombe announced that it was time to (FINALLY) start writing. "So, I want you all to write a journalistic article about - you know the fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood? well, write a journalistic article about that. Your editor wants it in 20 minutes. Go."

Yippee! Jitters and excitement and oh oh oh where to start?
Actually, starting wasn't that hard. Here's what I wrote:

The Woods – Little Red Riding Hood, who has been missing since Sunday evening, was discovered late Tuesday night at her grandmother’s cabin in the woods. The massive search party that was organized to find her discovered her on its second trip to question Hood’s grandmother, after being alerted to the discovery by John Wood.

Mr. Wood, the jack-of-all-trades who often went by Mrs. Hood’s cabin to help out by chopping firewood and doing other odd jobs, had discovered that Mrs. Hood was not Mrs. Hood after all, but a wolf. The wolf had disguised himself as Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother and swallowed first Mrs. Hood, than Little Red, whole. Mr. Wood rescued granddaughter and grandmother by splitting the wolf’s belly open with his axe.

Little Red and Mrs. Hood were taken to the hospital in good condition. Their injuries were minor, mostly cuts and scratches from the wolf’s teeth on the way down.

It remains unclear as to how Little Red and Mrs. Hood got into this situation, as they were not available for questioning. Mr. Wood, who gathered some information from Little Red Riding Hood during the rescue, suggests that the wolf tricked first granddaughter, then grandmother into his mouth.

According to Mr. Wood, Little Red Riding Hood pays a weekly visit to her grandmother on Sundays. While walking to Mrs. Hood’s cabin this week, however, Little Red was stalked by the wolf, who discovered her destination and hurried off ahead of her.

“He must have swallowed Mrs. Hood whole, then prepared to greet Little Red and swallow her for dessert”, Mr. Wood said. So far, this is the only speculation as to what can have truly happened.

Chief of Police Brian Foxwood said that the police department was investigating and would release information as soon as any of the events could be verified.