NORTWESTERN AGUSAN COLLEGES

Bayview Hill, Nasipit, Agusan del Norte

Activity

In

Building and Enhancing New Literacies

Across the Curriculum

Angilie H. Pamati-an
BEED - 1 (1st Sched)

Veronica C. Tomoling Ph.D, C

ar.
Instructor
 “The Foolish Donkey”

A salt seller used to carry the salt bag on his donkey to the market every day.

On the way they had to cross a stream. One day the donkey suddenly tumbled down the
stream and the salt bag also fell into the water. The salt dissolved in the water and hence
the bag became very light to carry. The donkey was happy.

Then the donkey started to play the same trick every day.

The salt seller came to understand the trick and decided to teach a lesson to it. The next
day he loaded a cotton bag on the donkey.

Again it played the same trick hoping that the cotton bag would be still become lighter.

But the dampened cotton became very heavy to carry and the donkey suffered. It learnt
a lesson. It didn’t play the trick anymore after that day, and the seller was happy.
Questions:

1. Why is the donkey happy?

2. What is the donkey trick?

3. What does the seller challenge to donkey?

4. What is the moral lesson of the story?

5. Have you ever terrible cease?

6. Why the donkey suffered from carrying the cotton?
7. What is the first item that the seller wants to sell in the market?
8. What is the item tha the donkey suffered to carry?
9. What does the seller felt about the donkey's trick?
10. If u were the donkey,would you do the same trick? Why?
Answers:

1. The donkey is happy because he plays the trick every day.

2. The donkey trick is dissolved the bag of salt into the water to became very light.

3. He challenges to load a cotton bag on the donkey.

4. It teaches us not to depend on luck and short cuts. Instead we should believe in hard work.

5. Yes, because we don't need to take decision. We have path is in our lives. We have difficult ways
but sometimes we need to take the heavy, the difficult path to have a good end.
6. Its because the dampened cotton became very heavy to carry.
7. The first item that the seller wants to sell is a salt.
8. The items that the donkey suffered to carry is the dampened cotton.
9. The salt seller understand the trick but when he decide to teach a lesson,the donkey didn't play the
trick anymore.
10. No, because I have enough patience to do the tasks rendered.

NAME: Angilie H. Pamati-an

Course&year: BEED-1 (1st scheduled)
INSTRUCTOR: Veronica C. Tomoling PH. D,Car