Learning Competency:
a. Recognize positive and negative
messages conveyed in a text
b. Compare and contrast own opinions
with those presented in familiar texts
(Q2)
c. Determine various social, moral and
Key Idea:
Reading Narratives
Review:
What is a Narrative? Give some
examples.
Review:
Write down one thing you are
expecting to see in this book.
Review:
2.With a partner, discuss your
answer and together write down 3
things you expect to see in a
narrative
Review:
3. There
are
many
different
categories of narratives – one of
them is folk tales or legends, as
in this book. Can you think of 3
more?
Language Practice:
This Narrative is called Juan
Gathers Guavas. It is a folk tale
from the Philippines
. What is a folk tale?
Vocabulary:
a feast of guavas, neighbors, hastened,
fastened, swollen, Folk tale
Vocabulary:
a feast of guavas (a meal made up of a lot of guavas – ‘feast’
also means a celebration meal with a lot of people)
• neighbors (people who live near each other) • hastened
(hurried)
• fastened (locked)
• swollen (puffed up; enlarged, bloated, bigger than usual
because of an infection, a bite, or an injury)
• Folk tale (a legend or myth; usually belonging to a particular
cultural group (tribe) and having a moral or meaning or an
explanation of the creation of the world, animals or natural
phenomena)
Use the following words into a
sentence.
Example: “I am going to Juan’s
house to celebrate his birthday
with a big meal that will be a
feast of guavas.’
Reading the Text
Juan Gathers Guavas1 One day Juan’s father sent him to get some ripe guavas,
for a number of the neighbors had come in and he wanted to give them something to
eat. Juan went to the guava bushes and ate all the fruit he could hold, and then he
decided to play a joke on his father’s guests instead of giving them a feast of guavas.
A wasp’s nest hung near by. With some difficulty he succeeded in taking it down and
putting it into a tight basket that he had brought for the fruit. He hastened home and
gave the basket to his father, and then as he left the room where the guests were
seated he closed the door and fastened it. As soon as Juan’s father opened the basket
the wasps flew over the room; and when the people found the door locked they fought
to get out of the windows. After a while Juan opened the door, and when he saw the
swollen faces of the people, he cried. “What fine, rich guavas you must have had!
They have made you all so fat!”
Questions:
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Who and what is involved in this narrative?
What is the event that sets off the main
events of the narrative?
Does the author intend readers to admire
Juan for his cleverness or not? Give
reasons for your answer.
*Find 3 pieces of evidence that show Juan has
planned his ‘joke’ very carefully.
*What did you think of the ending of the story?
Does it give a Resolution to the story? Give
reasons for your answer.
* Imagine Juan is your friend – what would you
say to him about this ‘joke’?
Lesson Conclusion:
1.
2.
3.
The focus of the lesson was on learning
about how narratives work. How has the
lesson helped you to understand this?
Which questions were easy to answer?
Why?
What strategies did you use to answer the
harder questions?