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Exploring the challenges of destitution, Grade 7 Literature, Horizon of imagination
Preparing for the complexities of destitution
Section I: Pre-Reading Preparation
1. In your opinion, what qualities should a good friend possess?
- Students share their own thoughts.
* Hint:
- In my opinion, a good friend should have qualities like honesty, compassion, tolerance, and forgiveness.
2. When is someone considered a 'strong individual'?
- Students share their thoughts and personal feelings.
* Hint:
- In my view, someone is considered a 'strong individual' when they rise above difficult circumstances through their own strength (physical or intellectual).
Section II: Engaging with the Text
* Two companions and the bear cub
1. Observation: Which event in the story surprised you?
- Students read the text and share their own thoughts.
* Hint:
- The event in the story that surprised me was when the friend ahead found a tree branch and hid in the foliage, leaving their companion behind.
* The Wolf and the Lamb
1. Observation: Pay attention to the distinction between the narrator's words and the characters' words
- Students differentiate between the narrator's words and the characters' words.
* Hint:
- The narrator's words: recounting events in the story, including recounting all the activities of the characters, describing the spatial and temporal context of the events, those activities.
Example: 'The stream flows, the lamb is thirsty/ The belly empty, the wolf suddenly appears'.
- The characters' words are the direct speech of the characters (dialogue, monologue), which can be presented separately or interspersed with the narrator's words.
Example: '- How dare you plunge your mouth into my stream/ And muddy the water I drink/ You deserve no mercy!'
2. Observation: Are the words of the wolf in the story persuasive? Why?
* Hint:
- The words of the wolf in the story are not persuasive. Because they are deceitful, false accusations, lacking the foundation of a strong bully intimidating the weak.
3. Inference: In the conclusion, why does the wolf deliberately distort the facts and accuse the lamb?
Answer:
- In the conclusion, the wolf deliberately distorts the facts and accuses the lamb in order to frame and eat the lamb.
Prepare the lesson 'Perilous Situations', Literature Class Grade 7, Horizon of Creativity
III. Reflection and Feedback
3. Summarize the story 'Two Companions and the Bear Cub'.
Answer:
Two companions were walking in the forest when they unexpectedly encountered a bear. The friend ahead found a tree branch and hid in the foliage. The other friend had to lie down on the ground, burying their face in the sand. The bear approached the friend lying on the ground, sniffed around for a while, then finally left. Later, the friend in the tree climbed down and met the other friend, asking what the bear said. The other friend replied, 'never trust those who abandon their friends in times of trouble.'
4. In allegorical texts as well as in story texts, characters' dialogues often contribute to portraying their characteristics. Summarize the dialogue between the two characters in 'The Wolf and the Lamb' and explain how the dialogues contributed to portraying the characteristics of each character?
Answer:
* Summarize the dialogue between the two characters:
- The wolf demands that the lamb be punished for muddying its water, but the lamb argues that the place where the lamb and the wolf drink water is more than twenty steps apart.
- The wolf continues to accuse the lamb of badmouthing the wolf last year. The lamb responds that at that time the lamb hadn't been born yet and is currently still suckling its mother.
- This wolf then accuses the lamb's older brother of badmouthing the wolf. The lamb denies having any siblings.
- The wolf shifts blame onto the lamb's entire family, including the dog, human, and then claims revenge, thereafter eating the lamb.
* The dialogues contributed to portraying the characteristics of each character:
- Wolf character: demonstrates the inherently wicked nature of a strong bully preying on the weak and shows the wolf's unreasonable, deceitful accusations and dull reasoning.
- Lamb character: shows the innocence and injustice of the lamb. At the same time, it demonstrates the lamb's intelligence and quick-wittedness, yet still succumbing to the fate of being oppressed by the strong.
6. Between the two texts 'The Wolf and the Lamb', and 'The Wolf and the Lamb', I prefer the text 'The Wolf and the Lamb'. Because:
+ Unique form: the allegorical tale is told in verse.
+ Meaningful content: the story has taught me lessons about truth and justice in life, reminding me to be vigilant against the strong who oppress the weak.
Sample paragraph:
After reading the allegorical tale 'The Wolf and the Lamb', I was deeply impressed by La Fontaine's storytelling in verse. The story narrates the encounter between the cruel and cunning wolf and the weak but quick-witted lamb. Revolving around the wolf's baseless accusations and the lamb's defense, we see the injustice and absurdity of the powerful always ready to trample on morality, fabricate lies, and bully and kill the weak. From this, the story reminds us of the lesson about the strong and the weak in life, urging us to beware of the ruthless who always oppress, despise justice, and oppress others.
With the meaningful lessons drawn from the texts 'Two Companions and the Bear Cub', and 'The Wolf and the Lamb', I need to have awareness and take appropriate actions in life. In addition, Mytour also compiles Grade 7 model essays and synthesizes many other reference materials:
- Prepare the lesson Knowing People, Knowing Ourselves, Literature Class Grade 7, Horizon of Creativity
- Prepare the Vietnamese Practice Lesson 2, Literature Class Grade 7, Horizon of Creativity
