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This story is about a little black fish named Swimmy who escapes being eaten by a tuna fish that swallows all of Swimmy's little red fish schoolmates. Swimmy explores the underwater world but feels lonely. He discovers another school of little red fish hiding from big fish. Swimmy teaches the school to swim together in tight formation with him as the "eye" in front, which protects them by making the school look like one huge fish. From then on, the united school is able to swim freely and chase away any big fish.

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This story is about a little black fish named Swimmy who escapes being eaten by a tuna fish that swallows all of Swimmy's little red fish schoolmates. Swimmy explores the underwater world but feels lonely. He discovers another school of little red fish hiding from big fish. Swimmy teaches the school to swim together in tight formation with him as the "eye" in front, which protects them by making the school look like one huge fish. From then on, the united school is able to swim freely and chase away any big fish.

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Swimmy

Leo Lionni
 
Directions: Read this story with the class. As we read and discuss, annotate for the elements of exposition:
• Setting: Where and when
• Characters: Protagonist and antagonist
• Conflict: Internal and external
• Resolution: How is the problem solved?
• Theme: What did you learn?
After annotating, complete a PLOT DIAGRAM on paper. This will include noting the elements of exposition AND
listing the main events of the story in text order.

Turn it in!
• Digital text: Turn into Google Classroom
• Paper plot diagram: Turn into the bin

A happy school of little fish lived in a corner of the


sea somewhere. They were al red. Only one of
them was as black as a mussel shell. He swam
faster than his brothers and sisters. His name was
Swimmy.

One day a tuna fish, swift, fierce and very hungry,


came darting through the waves. In one gulp he
swallowed all the little red fish. Only Swimmy
escaped.

He swam away in the deep wet world. He was


scared, lonely, and very sad.
But the sea was full of wonderful creatures, and as
he swam from marvel to marvel Swimmy was happy
again.

He saw a medusa made of rainbow jelly…

A lobster, who walked about like a water-moving


machine…

Strange fish, pulled by an invisible thread…

A forest of seaweeds growing from sugar-candy


rocks…

An eel whose tail was almost too far away to


remember…

And sea anemones, who looked like pink palm trees


swaying in the wind.

Then, hidden in the dark shade of the rocks and


weeds, he saw a school of fish, just like his own.

“Let’s go and swim and play and SEE things!” he


said happily.
“We can’t,” said the little red fish. “The big fish will
eat us all.”
“But you can’t just lie there,” said Swimmy. “We
must THINK of something.”

Swimmy thought and thought and thought.

Then suddenly he said, “I have it!”


“We are going to swim all together like the biggest
fish in the sea!”

He taught them to swim close together, each in his


own place, and when they had learned to swim like
one giant fish, he said, “I’ll be the eye.”

And so they swam in the cool morning water and in


the midday sun and chased the big fish away.

 
 
 
 

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