Wednesday, June 8, 2011

June Vacation Chap 9.2 RATE (L2) A Twist to the Red Riding Hood Adventure

Read the following short story... you will be able to find descriptions related to RATE...

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in a village near the forest. Whenever she went out, the little girl wore a red riding cloak, so everyone in the village called her Little Red Riding Hood.

One morning, Little Red Riding Hood asked her mother if she could go to visit her grandmother as it had been a while since they'd seen each other.

"That's a good idea," her mother said. "We usually visit grandma twice a month. However, because of common tests, you have not visited Grandma this month! She would be upset if she doesn't see you soon!"
["Rate" in the story: 2 visits in ONE month]

Based on what you understand about the term "rate", you will now continue to build the story from where the last person has commented... Everyone will contribute to one part of this Marathon Story. Your part of the story should have at least one description related to to RATE.

20 comments:

  1. Little Red Riding Hood set off for her grandma's house immediately with her basket full of fruits at 5 paces a second.
    ["Rate" in the story: 5 paces in ONE second)

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  2. Little Red Riding Hood picked apples at a rate of 5 apples per tree. (average rate)

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  3. Little Red Riding Hood packed 2 fruits per second into the basket for her grandma.

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  4. When Little Red Riding Hood arrived at her Grandmother's house, she unpacked the apples. She unpacked 12 apples in 6 seconds. When her Grandmother saw the juicy apples, the widest smile appeared on her face.

    [Reference to "rate" in the story: the unpacking of 2 apples per second]

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  5. She then skipped to her grandmothers house at 1.65 meters per second(m/s)

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  6. Her Grandmother then picked up an apple and gobbled it down in 5 minutes.

    [Reference to "rate" in the story: 1 apple in 5 minutes]

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  7. Little Red Riding Hood, seeing her grandmother enjoying the apples, she decided to try the oranges in the fruit basket. Every time her grandmother would wolf down 2 apples before she would eat an orange.
    ["Rate" in the story: 2 apple per orange]

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  8. Little Red Riding Hood felt tired standing up so she walked towards a nearby chair at 1 metre per second.

    [rate in the story :1metre per second]

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  10. Then, Little Red Riding Hood took out the poem she had written for her Grandmother. She read out the poem which was about a wolf in the woods. She finished the whole 30 word-poem in a minute. Hearing the poem, the grandmother smiled.

    [Rate in the story : 30 word-poem in a minute (30 words/min)]

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  11. Her grandmother then started asking her 1 question every minute, attempting to know how she wrote that poem.

    [Rate: 1 question/min]

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  13. After she checked for 15 minutes she went back and her grandma began to tell little red riding hood her understanding of her poem that was about 50 words that she finish in 5 minutes.

    Rate-10 words/min

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  14. Not willing to answer those questions,, Little Red Riding Hood then walked away and came to see if Grandma was still there every 5minutes.

    Rate: 1/5 checks/min
    EDITED

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  15. Her Grandma was bored, so Little Red Riding Hood turned on the television and together they watched 1 show for every 1 hour

    Rate-1show/hour

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  16. After they got even more bored, the played computer games. Little Red Riding Hood character got killed every 5 minutes.

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  17. Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandma decided to bake cake, 2 cakes an hour.

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  18. When the cakes were done, Little Red Riding Hood at 2 of the cakes within 5 minutes and packed the rest into her basket at 2 cakes per second

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  19. and she will skip back home at a pace of 2m per minute

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  20. She sprain her leg so she limped back at the pace of 1m per minute.

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