{"id":447,"date":"2016-10-05T13:54:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T20:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/?p=447"},"modified":"2016-10-05T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T21:01:11","slug":"mr-wolfs-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/2016\/10\/05\/mr-wolfs-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Wolf&#8217;s Little Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The following example is for a lesson in dialogue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cLittle Pig, I know you\u2019re in there!\u201d shouted Mr. Wolf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNo I\u2019m not,\u201d replied Little Pig rather sarcastically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mr. Wolf was not having it. \u201cHey Pig, I need some advice,\u201d he pleaded, \u201cplease come out!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Just then, Mr. Wolf felt a little tickle in his nostril. He huffed and he puffed and he sneezed that little tickle right out of his nose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cAAAAACHOOOOOOO!\u201d he bellowed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And with that, Little Pig\u2019s house crumpled in a pile of straw and sand.<br \/>\n\u201cOops,\u201d admitted Mr. Wolf, a little embarrassed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Little Pig was nowhere to be found.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mr. Wolf then walk down the street to the next pig\u2019s house.<br \/>\n\u201cHey Piglet, I need to ask you something.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Come out!\u201d he shouted once more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cCan\u2019t hear you!\u201d mocked Piglet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cYes you can,\u201d Mr. Wolf responded irritated, \u201cyou just heard me ask you to come out!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNo I didn\u2019t,\u201d replied Piglet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHow annoying,\u201d murmured Mr. Wolf to himself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Just then, Mr. Wolf felt a little sniffle in his nostril. He huffed and he puffed and he sneezed that little sniffle right out of his nose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAHHHHCHOOOOO!!! he sneezed. \u201cAh, that felt good,\u201d he announced to nobody in particular.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He looked down and saw the house of twigs in a pile on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOops,\u201d Mr. Wolfe whispered to himself, \u201cnot again.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Piglet was nowhere to be found<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reluctantly, Mr. Wolf went to Boss Hog\u2019s house.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBoss Hog, can you open up? I\u2019ve got a question you might be able to help me with!\u201d shouted Mr. Wolf, with a little less confidence than before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhaddya want, Wolf?\u201d bit back Boss Hog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019ve got a cold,\u201d cried Mr. Wolf, \u201cand I don\u2019t know what to take for it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAhhhh! Hows about some tea with ginger and lemon and honey, followed by a little bit of pink medicine and a good night\u2019s sleep.\u201d said Boss Hog thoughtfully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cGreat idea!\u201d shouted Mr. Wolf. \u201cWow,\u201d he said, \u201cthat was really good advice, Boss. I knew I could on you pigs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Just as Mr. Wolf was turning to leave, he felt a little flutter in his nostril.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He huffed and he puffed and\u2026 and\u2026 and\u2026 \u201cAHHHHHCHOOOOOOOO!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mr. Wolfe sneezed that flutter right out of his nose.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He also blew the roof off of Boss Hog\u2019s big brick house. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMy bad,\u201d said Mr. Wolf with a sly grin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following example is for a lesson in dialogue. \u201cLittle Pig, I know you\u2019re in there!\u201d shouted Mr. Wolf. \u201cNo I\u2019m not,\u201d replied Little Pig rather sarcastically. Mr. Wolf was not having it. \u201cHey Pig, I need some advice,\u201d he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/2016\/10\/05\/mr-wolfs-problem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43780,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/teachingwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}