Prepare the lesson 'Exploring Autobiography'

Craft the lesson 'Exploring Autobiography, short 1'

I. Meaning and Characteristics of Autobiographical Writing 

Craft the lesson 'Exploring Autobiography, short 2'

I. Meaning and Common Characteristics of the Autobiographical Method

Question 1 (page 27 literature textbook grade 6 volume 1)
a. In those cases, the listener wants to be told:
- Tell the content of the fairy tale
- The reason An stopped studying,
- Information about appearance, hobbies, academic achievements…
- A good story

b. If you want to let others know that Lan is a good friend, you have to talk about Lan:
+ Diligent in studying, achieving good results
+ Regularly helps friends in study, labor, daily activities
- Because: these things prove that Lan is a good friend
- If telling a story about An without relating to quitting school, then the story is meaningless because it does not meet the purpose of the questioner.

Question 2 (page 27 literature textbook grade 6 volume 1)
The Legend of Thanh Giong is an autobiographical text, because:
- The story tells about the struggle against foreign invaders of Giong
- Time: the sixth Hung King period
- Developments: Gióng, a 3-year-old boy, speaks, grows fast, rides an iron horse, wears iron armor, holds a whip to fight invaders → Gióng pulls bamboo to beat the invaders → the invaders are defeated, Gióng flies into the sky.

- Meaning: the patriotic spirit, brave resistance against invaders of Gióng
- The reason for saying the Legend of Thanh Giong praises the merits of the hero Gióng:
+ The story tells about the birth, growth, and heroic fight against invaders of the first hero in our country.
- The events can be arranged in order:
+ Gióng is born
+ Gióng speaks and accepts the role of the God's palanquin carrier
+ Gióng grows up, rides a horse to fight the invaders
+ The invaders are defeated, Gióng rides a horse to the sky
+ The king builds a temple to worship Gióng

- Events can be arranged in order:
+ Gióng is born
+ Gióng speaks and accepts the role of the God's palanquin carrier
+ Gióng grows up, rides a horse to fight the invaders
+ The invaders are defeated, Gióng rides a horse to the sky
+ The king builds a temple to worship Gióng

II. Practice

Exercise 1 (page 28 literature textbook grade 6 volume 1)
- The story of the Old Man and Death, presented in the autobiographical method:
+ Characters: Old Man, Death
+ Events: The old man carries heavy firewood, sighs, and Death appears, the old man is quick-witted and shifts to another topic
- Meaning: Praise the courage and quick wit of humans

Exercise 2 (page 28 literature textbook grade 6 volume 1)
The poem 'Sa Trap' is expressed in an autobiographical way, because it has characters and the content of the story.
- Retell: Little Cloud lures kitten to trap mice with fragrant grilled fish. Both eagerly wait and imagine the scene of mice falling into the trap, but before the mice arrive, the cat has already fallen into the trap.

Exercise 3 (page 27 literature textbook grade 6 volume 1)
Both texts 'Hue: Opening the Third International Sculpture Camp' and 'The People of Au Lac Defeating the Invading Qin Army' are autobiographical texts because:
+ Both have characters, events, and the content of the story presented in a sequence of events.
- Autobiography plays a role in narrating the events in a concise and captivating manner

Exercise 4 (page 28 literature textbook grade 6 volume 1)
The Vietnamese people call themselves the Dragon's descendants because:
- Lac Long Quan, a dragon's descendant, married Au Co, and their descendants hatched from a hundred eggs, giving birth to a hundred children. The descendants of Au Co and Lac Long Quan became the Hung Kings who ruled the country.

Exercise 5 (page 28 literature textbook grade 6 volume 1)
To convince classmates, you need to:
- As the class monitor, Minh is diligent in studying, excelling, and often helps classmates.
- Briefly recounting some academic achievements will be more meaningful in persuading classmates in the class.

Prepare the lesson General Introduction to Autobiography, short 3

I. Significance and Common Characteristics of Autobiographical Method:

1. In daily life, we often encounter requests and questions like:
a. In such cases, according to the narrator, the listener wants to know the answers, useful information, and the narrator has to narrate, convey the information to the listener.

2. The story 'Saint Giong' is an autobiographical text:
- The story narrates the hero Giong during the sixth Hung King period, where Giong fights the enemy to save the country. Result: Giong defeats the An invaders. Giong is the brilliant symbol of a hero fighting the enemy to save the country.
- The story 'Saint Giong' praises the virtues of the hero Giong because Saint Giong defeated the enemy, helped our country achieve peace, but after the victory, Saint Giong cared not for fame or rewards, leaving behind armor and flying to the sky.
- Listing:
+, Opening details: poor peasant couple in Giong village old without children.
+, Development: the wife steps on a strange footprint - becomes pregnant - Giong is born - three years of silence, no laughter, no walking - hears the sound of the messenger - the first words - requests 'armor, horse, iron whip' - the whole village raises Giong - Giong grows quickly - fights with the An enemy - iron whip breaks - uproots bamboo to fight the enemy - chases the enemy to the foot of Soc Son mountain - flies to the sky - crowned as Phu Dong Thien Vuong.
+, Conclusion: The story of bamboo at Ngang Ngà, Chay village.
- Characteristics of the autobiographical method:
The method presents a series of events, one event leads to another, ultimately leading to a conclusion, expressing a meaning.

II. PRACTICE:

1. Reading the story 'The Old Man and Death'
- Autobiographical method in the story: narrated in chronological order, events linked together, unexpected ending. (third-person narrative).
- Meaning of the story: praises the intelligence and flexibility of the old man.

2. 'Sa Trap'
The poem 'Sa Trap' is an autobiographical poem because it tells a story with a beginning, middle, characters, details, and events to mock the greedy nature of the cat, which led the cat to trap itself.
- Oral storytelling.
Storytelling requirements: follow the storytelling sequence in the poem:
+, Little Cloud persuades the kitten to trap the mice with fragrant grilled fish hanging in the iron frame.
+, Both the child and the cat think the mice will be tempted and trapped.
+, At night, Cloud dreams of catching a bunch of mice crying for mercy.
+, The next morning, unexpectedly, the cat itself is trapped.

3.
- Both texts are autobiographical with the meaning of storytelling and narrating events.
- Autobiography here serves the purpose of introduction, narration, and telling current events or history.

4. Tell a story to explain why the Vietnamese people call themselves the Dragon's descendants:
Recall the story 'Dragon's Descendants' and retell it.

In the 6th-grade Vietnamese Language Arts curriculum, the topic of Smart Babies is one of the crucial contents that students should pay attention to and enhance their knowledge of Vietnamese Language Arts 6.