Create Your Ritual Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Alexander & Bucephalus Retelling - Once upon a time there was a man named King Philip. He had bought a fine horse called Bucephalus. Unfortunately, the horse was wild and nobody could ride him. Every knight in the kingdom tried to ride him. Alexander, King Philip's son, wanted to try too so he turned the horse's head towards the sun because he had noticed that the horse was afraid of his shadow. Then he hopped on Bucephalus. At first the horse was afraid, but then he ran like the wind. Finally the horse had tired, and Alexander reined him in. Then they trotted back to the castle. King Philip said, "Macedonia is too small for you. I am going to give you Bucephalus to have for your own!" Alexander won many battles on Bucephalus, and Bucephalus saved Alexander's life numerous times. Alexander was one of the greatest rulers in the world. The End Through the Eyes of Bucephalus - - this wasn't part of the original assignment, but I thought it might be fun for her to tell the story from a different viewpoint. It was a hot, dry, sunny day and Bucephalus was thinking, "First I am in one palace and now another one where nobody treats me any better. I wish that Alexander person would try riding me instead of these soldiers who beat me and whip me." He had seen Alexander and thought that he looked like a nice person. At first he had been taken care of inside Rome. He was fed sweet feed by the Senators and was the center of everything, until he had been sold. Now he was a wild beast. He kept seeing dark, black images of things that made him as nervous as a rat being cornered by a leopard. Suddenly Alexander came up to him and hopped on. Bucephalus didn't see the dark, black things anymore, and he ran like the wind in a tornado. He was so fast. Now Bucephalus was Alexander's horse. Occasionally they went off to battle and won almost always. He loved fighting next to Alexander and thought, "Oh great, lets fight!" He loved Alexander to the end. *** I just remembered with the Bucephalus retelling I had been concentrating on teaching them about similes and metaphors that week. I see now that she used several in her story. Which reminds me that I need to continue doing that each week. Adding to it with new things as we go. Otherwise they just revert back to the normal retellings... I need to create a list of things to incorporate in their story for practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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