A Tale of Two Narrations

A few times a month I type out the kids' narrations to keep as a record and to see how far they've come. Here are two of Jordan's:

Fall 2009 - Narration from the story of Jonah:

God told Jonah to go to Nineveh and he didn’t obey so he ran away and got a ticket to go on a boat that headed toward Spain. And there was a storm when they were going there and they even threw things overboard so that it would make the ship lighter. And Jonah told them to throw him overboard and they prayed to God and asked that they would not drown, and then they threw Jonah overboard and the storm stopped. And then God sent a big fish to swallow up Jonah. Jonah was in the fish for three days and three nights then God told him to unswallow him. And then the second time God told him to go to Nineveh and that time he obeyed. And it took him three days to get in there, and they wore sackcloth, and they turned away from their sins so God did not destroy them. 

August 2011 - Narration from Our Island Story chapter 31

Thomas a Becket was Henry’s chancellor. He got a lot of stuff for him and he had servants, and he had rich food and he had nice clothes. He was almost more powerful than the king. He and Henry played a lot, like little boys after they finished working. Henry made him an archbishop of the church and so he lived at the church, he lived in a cell, and he and Henry started to quarrel because he and the Pope were on one side and Henry was on a side. They quarreled and quarreled until Thomas a Becket fled and then he came back, but then they started to quarrel again. He stayed in England though. The four knights heard him; he was very angry and he said that he wished that he would leave, and the four knights heard him and wanted to please their King and so they went to Thomas a Becket’s house and told him/asked him if he would obey their king or he would have to flee. And he said I do what my God wants me to because I am one of God’s servants and he is higher than the king and I will only obey him.And so they got angry and they said we will be back and Thomas a Becket said you will find me here. And two monks didn’t want him to stay there; he said I told them they would find me here. Then it was time for church and so he went out and the four knights got in because the people wanted to bar the gate so that he wouldn’t get hurt and he wouldn’t let them. And they came in and they killed him. And then they ran away frightened.

I love it!