Read "The Lady and the Tiger" online and complete your class assignment

In the ALC (Rock Island) class, we read a story by Frank Stockton called "The Lady and the Tiger." It was taken from C.G. Draper's Great American Stories 1: An ESL/EFL Reader.

Clicking on the following link will take you to another online version of the same story. Someone has rewritten the story to make it shorter and easier, but it contains the same ideas and information as the version we read in class.

LINK: Shorter Summary Version of "The Lady and the Tiger" 

If you would like to read and listen to Frank Stockton's original version of the story at Voice of America, click on the link below. Play the video, which allows you to read and listen to the story at the same time. 

LINK: Read and listen to still another version of "The Lady and the Tiger"

HERE IS THE WRITING ASSIGNMENT FROM THE BOOK:

Writing: Three-Paragraph Composition

     1. Which came out of the opened door--the lady, or the tiger? Write down this question. Then write a paragraph that begins with this sentence: Perhaps it was the lady who came out.
Give at least three reasons why the princess chose the lady for her lover.

     2.  Write a second paragraph that begins like this: On the other hand, perhaps it was the tiger. Give at least three reasons why the princess chose the tiger.

     3. Write a third paragraph that begins with these words: Personally, I think . . .
Give your own choice. Which of the reasons that you have written is the most important to you? Why?

(The writing assignment is from Draper, C.G., Great American Stories 1: An ESL/EFL Reader. 3rd edition. New York: Pearson Education, 2001, p. 127.