ACTIVITY 3

The following comic strip was developed for children. Fill in the colours in the
sketches. Then read the comic strip in separate sessions with five school-going
children staying in your locality. Now :
i) record the reactions of each child (indicate each child's name, age, sex,
socio-economic background, and any other factor of importance.)

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ii) analyse whether the message of the comic strip was understood by each child
by asking 2-3 questions you must list the specific questions you asked.
I iii) suggest modifications based on (i) and (ii).
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Guidelines :

1) Try to make the comic strip as attractive as possible. The use of appropriate
colours is always effective. So give your creativity free rein and use crayons,
felt pens or paints. You can also make enlarged photostat copies of the
pictures we have given (if necessary) before colouring.
2) The questions you use for part (ii) must be carefully worded. Do not give the
child any hints. He or she must discover the message and the meaning on
his / her OWE .
3) Be careful to conduct your session with each child in the same way.
Otherwise the child might react to your presentation style -opening and
closing remarks etc. - rather than to the comic strip.
4) Carefully observe the reactions ofthe child while going through the comic
strip. This will give you valuable clues.
 NOT LONG AGO, IN THE VILLAGE OF R4MPUR
THERE LIVED A BOY CALLED RAMU. HE WAS
ELEVEN YEARS OLD.
HIS FATHER WAS A FARMER.
RAMU HAD A LllTLE BORTHER CALLED GOLOO,
WHO WAS SIX MONTHS OLD.
ADAPTED FROM A RADIO STORY AND RAMU HAD A GREEN PARROT WHOSE NAME
BY UNICEF, NEW DLHI. WAS GANGARAM.
GANGARAM. TOMORROW
WE'RE GOING TO THE
FAIR. WON'T YOU COME

SLEEP. BUT GANGARAM COULDNT SLEEP. HE LOOKED

 OTHE BEDWHICH BEGAN

JUSTBEFORE HE CLOSED HIS EYESHE SAW GANGA-

ED. THE SUN WAS SHINING. GOLOO WAS CRYING,

 ADTO LEAVE RAHAT CAMP.THEY HAD BEEN THERE
F GOLOO. BUT ONE DAY HE MET AN'~OLD
WOMAN LONG TIME. THE FOUND A CAVE NEARBY. RAMU

Ma, Baba where are you,

Won't you please tell me ?
Won't you call me to you,
Or else come back to me?

HE'S GOT RED SPOTS

ON HIS FACE AND
 CHILDREN WHO HAVEN'T BEEN
VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES

ANSI's WORDS MADE RAMU VERY WORRIED. HE

JUST IN TIME. THERE WAS AN EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES
HERE. AIANY CHILDREN HAD DIED. SHE GAVE
VACCINATIONS AGAINST MEASLES, TB.

GOLOONEEDSIDOSEOF

OF THE OTHER VACCINES.

MUST BE GIVEN SOON
AFTER THE CHILD IS
9 MONTHS OLD.
P INA VILLAGE FAR AWAY. HOW HAPPY THEY WERE
REN. WHEN THEY HEARD THAT
00 VACCINATED, THEY WERE
YOU WERE VACCINATED AGAINST ALL DISEASES AT TH
AFTER GOLOO, AND OFFERED HER A HOME WITH
THEM. TOGETHER THEY ALL SE' OFF FOR THEIR
VILLAGE TO BUILD A NEW HOME, AND A NEW LIFE,
THE OLD WOMAN, MA, BABA, RAMU GOLOO AND
Source :Stories of Adventure, WHO Popular Text Series 1.