Literature Activity 1.

Check your understanding of the tales by answering the following questions.

1. Why did Monkey’s great uncle give him a bow and arrow and a fiddle?

2. How did Brer Wolf prompt Monkey to bring out his bow and arrow?

3. How do you interpret Monkey’s action of bringing out his bow and arrow?

4. Why did Jackal propose that the case between Wolf and Monkey be settled in the court of
Lion, Tiger and the other animals

5. What do the traits of the monkey, wolf, jackal and lion reveal about humanity? Why do you
say so?

6. Why do you think Anansi is eager to obtain the sky god’s stories?

7. Why did the sky god ask Anansi to bring him the python, leopard, hornet and fairy as
payment for the stories?

8. Of all other animals, why is the spider chosen as a trickster character? What characteristics of
a spider qualify him as much?

9. In what way does Anansi mirror mankind?

10. What message does he trickster tale convey?

ACTIVITY 2

Accomplish the following activity by identifying whether the specific feature indicated
the in each sentence shows: A. set form of beginning B. the use of connectives to show the
sequence of events. Or C. the use of connectives to show the cause and effect. Write the letters
of the correct answer on the space provided.
________ 1. hunger and want forced monkey one day forsake his land and to seek
elsewhere among strangers for much needed work.
_________2. When he had worked for quite a whole, he wanted to returned home.
_________3. the first he met upon his returned to his own land was Brer Wolf. This old
fellow told him all the news.
_________4. then monkey laid before him all the wonders of the bow and arrow that he
carried on hos back.
__________5. When monkey refused to give it to him, he thereupon began to threaten
him with his greater strength.
__________6. And so when Jackal passed by, Wolf told him that Monkey had stolen his
bow and arrow.
_________7. After Jackal had heard both of them, he declared himself unqualified to
settle the case alone.
_________8. And so fell the sentence against Monkey. Theft was looked upon as a great
wrong; he must be hanged.
_________9.Anansi wanted to buy the stories from the sky god Nyan-Konpon so he
decied to find and capture Onini, Osebo, Mmoatia and Mmoboro.
________10. When the leopard fell in the hole, Anansi offered to help him out with his
webs.
Activity 3
Go over the two folktales again then compare and contrast them based on the following
elements.

ELEMENT OF FOLKTALE “THE MONKEY’S FIDDLE “HOW THE SPIDER

OBTAINED THE SKY
GOD’S STORIES
Name of main Characters
Outstanding trait/s of main
character/s
Initiating problem expressed
in each folktale.
Solution to the problem.
Moral or value conveyed by
the folktales.