LESSON 3

Interpreting Narratives
 1.Recognize positive and
negative message
conveyed in a text (Q2)
LEARNING 2. Determine various
COMPETENCIES social, moral and
economic issues
discussed in the text
listened to ( Q3)
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 Short review

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 Q1.KNOWING THAT THE AGED
MOTHER IS A NARRATIVE LIKE
ANDROCLES AND THE LION, WHAT DO
YOU EXPECT IT TO BE ABOUT?
Q2.KNOWING THAT THE AGED
MOTHER IS A NARRATIVE, HOW DO
Questions YOU EXPECT IT TO BE STRUCTURED?
Q3.HOW WOULD YOUR EXPECTATIONS
CHANGE IF THE AGED MOTHER WAS A
ROMANTIC COMEDY OR A CRIME OR A
HORROR FILM? PICK ONE OF THOSE
TYPES OF FILM FOR THIS ANSWER.
Direction: there . Find the meaning of a word in the box.
Put your answer on theShogun
space provided
widowed
before the number.
proclamation The summit of the mountain
aged Province The kindest mode of death The shogun and his officials

1. _______old
2. _______ A woman whose husband died.
3.________ a state or region within a country.
4._______ a way of dying that involves the least suffering.
5. ______ the top of the mountain.
6. ___ a military ruler of a part of Japan a long time ago
7. _____ an announcement by a government that affects the citizens.
8.____ the leader of a province and the people help him to carry out
his tasks.
 The Aged Mother3
A long time ago at the foot of a mountain in Japan there lived a poor
farmer and his aged, widowed mother. They owned a bit of land
which supplied them with food, and they were humble, peaceful and
happy. Unfortunately, they lived in a province ruled by a shogun who
made a proclamation that all aged people were immediately to be put
to death. The farmer loved his mother but no one in this province ever
disobeyed the shogun. So he strapped his mother to his back and took
her up the mountain called Obatsuyama, the mountain where the aged
were often abandoned to die. This was considered the kindest mode of
death.

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There were many paths up to the summit of the
mountain and it was easy to get confused. Unknown
to the farmer, his mother carefully pulled twigs from
the bushes and threw them on the ground so that her
son would know the way back down. When they
reached the top, he laid her down carefully and was
about to leave her when he realized he did not know
the way back.

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“Follow the twigs I laid down for you,” his
mother said. It was then he knew that he could
not leave her there to die alone. Once again he
strapped his mother to his back and together,
they went back down the mountain. Once
home, he decided to hide his mother from the
shogun and his official.

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One day the shogun visited the province and
demanded that the people give him a rope made
out of ashes. No-one knew how to make one.
However, the farmer’s mother found the
solution. “Make a rope of twisted straw,“ she
said, “then stretch it out on a row of flat stones
and burn it on a windless night.”

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When the shogun arrived to claim his rope of ashes,
he asked who had been able to make one. The
farmer admitted that it was his aged mother. The
shogun was surprised and said, “My country needs
more than just the strength of youth. How could I
have forgotten the well-known saying, ‘with the
crown of snow there comes wisdom’?” At that very
hour, the cruel law was abolished.
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 Q1.What event causes the
farmer to take his mother
up the mountain? Q2.Find
QUESTIONS evidence of the mother’s
love for her son. Q3.Find
evidence that the mother is
very wise despite her age?
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Q4.What reason does the shogun have for ordering all aged
people to be killed? You will have to look very closely at the
text to find the answer.
Q5.Write the meaning of ‘with the crown of snow there
comes wisdom’ in your own words.
Q6.Your teacher has asked for your opinion about whether
or not this story should be used again next year in Year 8.
Write a short paragraph in the Workbook either justifying it
being kept OR it being dumped. Give your reasons.

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 Lesson Conclusion
Q1.The focus of the lesson was on learning more
about how narratives work. How has the lesson
helped you to understand this?
Q2.Which questions were easy to answer? Why?
Q3.What strategies did you use to answer the
harder questions?
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 LESSON 4
READING THE TEXT - RECOUNT

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 LESSON OBJECTIVES
1. Recognize positive and negative message
conveyed in a text (Q2)
2. Determine various social, moral and
economic issues discussed in the text listened
to (Q3)

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 REVIEW
•RECOUNT-writing is a style of writing that
recalls an event or experience. They're
usually based on the experience of the writer,
and therefore, they're most often told from
the first person, but this isn't always the case
- sometimes they're told on behalf of
someone else.
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 Questions
1. How can you tell from the title that
‘Shackleton’s Journey is more likely to be a
factual rather than a fictional text?
2. Knowing that Shackleton’s Journey is a
recount, what are you expecting to see in it?
3. In what ways is a factual text different to a
fictional text?
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 Language Focus:
• expedition (a journey, sometimes dangerous, needing a lot of planning and
organization, usually involving a big crew and often to places that are remote from
humans)
• resilience (toughness; ability to keep going despite setbacks)
• a desolate and uninhabited landmass (an island covered in ice – no one lived
there)
• whaling station (a small village where ships that hunted whales would go for
harbor)
• grueling (difficult, exhausting)
• embarked (a tool used in spinning)
• crevasses (cracks in the ice where the explorers were walking that could
suddenly open up under their feet)
• ordeal (a difficult experience)
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 Shackleton’s Journey4
Sir Ernest Shackleton's was one of the most famous
explorers of Antarctica. In 1914, he set out on an
expedition to cross the Antarctic continent in his ship,
the Endurance, but it became trapped in the ice of the
Weddell Sea and could not move. What happened next
was a journey of amazing courage, resilience and
determination in the face of huge challenges.

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Shackleton and his crew made their way across
the ice to Elephant Island, a desolate and
uninhabited landmass. At least there was fresh
water and they were able to hunt seals and sea
lions for food. However, Shackleton knew that
no-one would find them there so their only
chance of survival was to find help.

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Shackleton decided that he and five of his men would set
sail in a small lifeboat on an incredible 800- mile journey
across the treacherous Southern Ocean. They were
looking for South Georgia Island, where Shackleton
knew there was a whaling station. Battling freezing
temperatures, monstrous waves, and relentless winds,
they navigated through icy waters, always hoping they
would reach South Georgia Island, where they knew they
could get help.

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After a grueling seventeen days, they finally
reached South Georgia, however they were on the
wrong side of the island and faced a dangerous
journey over its rugged and icy land. Shackleton
and two others embarked on this perilous journey,
leaving the rest behind to await their return.
Through blizzards and crevasses, they made their
way, pushing their bodies to the limits of endurance.

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Miraculously, they arrived at the whaling station on the
other side of the island. Shackleton immediately
organized a rescue mission to save the men he left
behind on Elephant Island. After several attempts,
Shackleton finally succeeded in reaching Elephant
Island, rescuing his stranded crew members and
bringing them all back to safety. Not a single life was
lost during this extraordinary ordeal.

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 Q1.How did Shackleton and his men
survive on Elephant Island?
Q2. List the problems Shackleton and
his men faced on the journey from
Questions Elephant Island to South Georgia
Island.
Q3. Look at the first paragraph of the
text. How does it match the typical
opening paragraphs of a Recount?
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 Q4. What difficulty did Shackleton and
his men face once they got to South
Georgia Island?
Q5. Find evidence that Shackleton was
an intelligent leader who was not afraid
Questions to make hard decisions. Q6. This Recount
does not have a concluding paragraph
that sums up the significance of the
events. Write a paragraph giving the text
such a conclusion
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 Questions:
Q1.The focus of the lesson was
Lesson on learning about how recounts
Conclusion work. How has the lesson helped
you to understand the difference?
Q2.Which questions were easy to
answer? Why?
Q3.What technique did you use to
answer the harder questions?
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Thank you for your listening!