NAME: Bance, Claire Jade P.

STRAND/SECTION: 11 ABM CRYSTAL SCORE: _________

Performance Task No. 1 – CHILDREN’S STORY BOOK

“The Magician Moon and The Assistant Sun”

TITLE OF STORY

In a town near the ocean, a young boy lives in a village with his parents and grandmother. One
day, he was left alone in their house with his grandma because his parents need to go in town to sell the
fishes caught by his father. He spends his time playing with his grandma that he didn’t realize it was already
dark until he saws the sun gradually drowning down the ocean. As he turns his back, he got surprised when
he didn’t see the silver moon shining bright on the mid of dark sky. “Grandma!” he shrieks as he immediately
run towards his grandma and hid behind her that made the old woman confused. His Grandma decided to
ask him what is going on and he just answered that the moon disappears and it will be the end for the earth.
The old lady couldn’t help but laugh from adorableness of her grandson as she pinches the cheek of the
child that is now pouting from the fact that her grandma is making fun of him. His grandma told her that it
was still there and they just couldn’t see that made the young boy confuse so he asks how that happen.

“Moon is like a magician and his assistance to make his trick is the sun.” she started. “Moon loves to
entertain the Earth and for him to do that he always needs sun to help him do his magic to appear and
disappear. Don’t you know that the moon doesn’t emit his light himself? He always need the light from sun
so that he can show himself to the earth and make his transformation, which is from the new moon to full
moon and he called that magic trick a Lunar cycle or Phases of the Moon.” She got interrupted when his
grandson asks a question. “If that so, how does the moon disappear?” asked by the confused boy. “You
see grandson, moon is always like on a journey when he revolves around the earth in fix orbit and as I said,
it doesn’t have his own light so when the time comes that moon is exactly in the middle of earth and sun, it
will pretty much become invisible to us and we call that phase New Moon.

” After its disappearance he will continue to revolve for 2 to 3 days on Earth that causes the light coming
from the sun luminous some of its part and make a crescent shape that will be called as the Waxing
Crescent. The orbital journey will continue and as it keeps revolving the lit part given by the sunlight will
become larger up to the half portion of Moon for about a week when it was exactly on 90 degrees on
position. It called that phase First Quarter. The next trick he will perform is the Waxing Gibbous which the
luminous part increases from half after 2 to 3 days of first quarter phase. After 2 weeks of his journey from
performing New Moon, it will reach beyond the earth with respect to the sun where the full side of moon
facing the earth will get the sunlight and a Full moon will occur. The journey doesn’t end there as it will
continue to the waning stage where the moon will start its voyage to return from the phase of Full Moon
into New Moon as light will start to shrink off the surface. The first phase it will enter in Waning Stage is the
Waning Gibbous with lesser reflection of light from the sun. Next is the Last Quarter phase where the moon
once again illuminated in a half portion but the part that was lit contradicts and followed by the Waning
Crescent phase in which the moon contracts back from the shape of crescent as the lit part become less
than the half full and finally the journey of Moon around the Earth finishes after 29.5 days by coming back
between the Earth and Sun or in its New Moon Phase just to start over again.”

“Did you know that both the Moon and the Sun exert gravitational force on Earth’s oceans? That’s why
when the moon is in a phase of New or Full Moon where the Moon and Sun are aligned, they exert
gravitational force both sides that causes Spring Tides to occur where high tides are at their highest, while
low tides are lower than usual. However, when the Moon is on the phase of Quarter Moon or in right angles
to each other, the sun pulls against the moon gravitational force that causes Neap Tides to occur where
the lowest high tide and the highest low tide or the least extreme difference between high and low tides.”
The Grandma sneak a peek to her grandson that he didn’t realize was already asleep on her lap. She
caresses his hair and let him sleep with the view of dark sky peeking on their window.
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