Diocesan Schools of Urdaneta

Saint Anthony Abbot Academy

Villasis, Pangasinan

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I. Objectives

At the end of the discussion, the students should be able to:

a. meets the author of the poem “The Village of Round and Square Houses;”

b. Identify the different character of the poem;

c. Identify the different rhyme words in the poem; and

d. extend appreciation of the poem “The Village of Round and square Houses.”

II. Learning process

Ann Grifalconi, writer and

illustrator of several books for
children, authored a Cadelcott Award
winning book, The Village of Round
and square Houses.

When Grifalconi visited Tos, a

remote village at the foot of Naka
Mountain of Cameroon in Central
Africa.

Ann Grifalconi, who drew on

different cultures to write and
illustrate dozens of well-regarded
children’s books, notably the award-
winning “The Village of Round and
Square Houses,” set in Central Africa,
died on Feb. 19 in Manhattan. She
was 90.
 Ann Grifalconi, who was white, often based her books on the traditions and experiences of
people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds, especially Africans and African-Americans.

She said a trip to a remote hamlet in Cameroon had inspired her to write and illustrate “The
Village of Round and Square Houses” (1986), which recounts a local folk tale describing how women
there came to live in round houses and men in square ones after a volcanic eruption.

The Village Of Round and Square Houses

Here’s the downloaded video clip of the poem “The Village of round and Square Houses”

Key questions

1. How do you find the poem “The Village Of round and square Houses”

2. Who are the character in the poem?

3. Who is mother Naka?

Activity

1. Answer the following questions under activity 1: Reading skills in your book page 9.

Questions No. 1,2 and 4 only.

2. Rhyme is the repetition of a sound in certain words. A rhyme that occurs at the end of lines is called
end rhyme. A Rhyme is found within a line is called an internal rhyme.

Find examples of end rhymes and internal rhymes in “The Village of Round and square Houses”. Write
them under the proper heading. Look at the examples given on the table.

End Rhyme Internal Rhyme

men- women Naka- Africa

3. Identify the different characters of the poem.