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Stories from Other Cultures
Objectives
To plan and record main points and ideas before writing.
Resources
Work completed last week | Lined paper
Today's Lesson
Spelling
Look at the words below and do a pre-test. This means that you are checking how well your student can spell these words before you teach them. You do not need to focus on the words your student spelled correctly the first time.
Rule: Endings which sound like /ΚΙn/, spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian (2 of 2).
- hesitation
- injection
- invention
- magician
There are many activities you can do during the week to practise spellings. Please see the Spelling Activity Sheet under General Resources and use them as you see fit for your student.
Dictation
For this exercise, do exactly as you did in Lesson 1 last week.
- There was hesitation by the group to get into the cold swimming pool.
- The injection didn't hurt.
- The invention of the fridge keeps food cold.
- Zippo the magician did some splendid magic tricks.
Main Activity
Read the story βWhy the Bat Flies at Nightβ below.
A bush rat called Oyot was a great friend of Emiong, the bat; they always fed together, but the bat was jealous of the bush rat. When the bat cooked the food it was always very good, and the bush rat said, "How is it that when you make the soup it is so tasty?"
The bat replied, "I always boil myself in the water, and my flesh is so sweet, that the soup is good."
He then told the bush rat that he would show him how it was done; so he got a pot of warm water, which he told the bush rat was boiling water, and jumped into it, and very shortly afterwards came out again. When the soup was brought it was as strong and good as usual, as the bat had prepared it beforehand.
The bush rat then went home and told his wife that he was going to make good soup like the bat's. He therefore told her to boil some water, which she did. Then, when his wife was not looking, he jumped into the pot, and was very soon dead.
When his wife looked into the pot and saw the dead body of her husband boiling she was very angry, and reported the matter to the king, who gave orders that the bat should be made a prisoner. Everyone turned out to catch the bat, but as he expected trouble he flew away into the bush and hid himself. All day long the people tried to catch him, so he had to change his habits, and only came out to feed when it was dark, and that is why you never see a bat in the daytime.
Say to your student that they will create their own version of either this story or one from Week 13 from Africa. Explain to your student that they are allowed to change some details, e.g. the description of the setting, the animals in the story, etc. But the main parts (the prompts) will need to stay the same.
π REVIEW - Stories from Other Cultures
Ask your student to complete the story planner. They may not need to use all 8 boxes but should use at least five.