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QUESTION:
What is the purpose
of a fable?? ?
Answer 1
A fable is a short
story intended to
teach a lesson.
QUESTION:
What kind of text
type is a fable?
Answer 2
A fable is a type
of narrative
QUESTION:
How do narratives
usually start? ?
Answer 3
At the start of a narrative, the
characters are introduced, and the
setting tells us where and when the
story takes place.
QUESTION:
What happens in the
middle part of the
narrative?
Answer 4
In the middle part of
the narrative, a
sequence of events leads
to a problem or crisis.
QUESTION:
How do narratives
usually end? ?
Answer 5
Narratives usually end with
a Resolution, where the
problem or crisis is resolved.
Sometimes there is a moral
to the story as well.
Word Hunt!
Directions: Find the meaning of the
difficult words. Then, capture image
that gives meaning to the words.
Let’s practice reading aloud
the words
1. Itneg
2. Blanket
3. Design
4. Stripes
5. Spirit
6. Companion
7. Simile
8. folk tales
Itneg - Itneg - “the people of the
mountains” from Arbra in Northern
Luzon. Also known as the Tinguian
during the Spanish period.)
Blanket - a cloth cover used
to keep warm
Design - a pattern used to
decorate something
Stripes - a pattern formed
from lines of different color
Spirit - ghost or soul of a
dead person
Companion - person you spend a
lot of time with often because
you are friends or because you
are travelling together
Figurative Language:
Simile - a phrase that uses comparison
to describe, e.g., as white as snow, I
slept like a log
folk tales - 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. A story that parents have passed on
to their children through speech over many
years.
The Striped Blanket
Three Itneg men once went to the mountains to hunt
deer. They took their blankets with them, for they
expected to be gone several days, and the nights in
the mountains are cold. Two of the blankets had blueand-white designs, like those commonly worn by the
Itneg. The third blanket was covered with red and
yellow stripes like the back of a little wild pig.
At night the men rolled up in their blankets and
lay down under a tree to sleep. But while the one
in the striped blanket was still awake, two spirits
came near and saw him. “Oh,” he heard one spirit
say to the other, “here we have something to eat,
for here is a little wild pig.” Then the man quickly
took the blanket off one of his sleeping
companions and put his own in its place. Very
soon the spirits came and ate the man under the
striped blanket.
Since that time the Itneg never sleep under that
kind of a blanket if they are where the spirits can
get them.
question 1 Who are the main characters
in the story ?
question
2
Where did the story take
place? ?
question 3
Why did the three men go to
the mountains? ?
question
4
Why did they take
their blankets??
Answers:
1.The main characters in the story are the three Itneg
men.
Q2.The story take place in the mountains in Northern
Luzon (Arbra).
Q3.The three men went to the mountains to hunt deer.
Q4.They took their blankets because they were going for
several days; the nights in the mountains are cold.
Q5.Before they went to sleep the men rolled up in their
blankets; they lay down under a tree
Looking for answers
beyond the text - Is it
hidden? Is it in my head?
Q1. What color was the
blanket with stripes?
Q2. Why did the man swap
blankets with his sleeping
companion?
Q3. What happened to the
man under the striped
blanket and why?
Q4. How do you think the
person with the striped
blanket felt?
Q5. What would you do if you
were the person with the
striped blanket? Give reasons
for your answer. (Write your
answer in a full sentence/s.) If
I were the person with the
striped blanket, I would …
because …
Q1. What did you learn from this story?
Q2. Which questions were hardest? Can you rank
them in order of difficulty? (1 for easiest 10
for hardest)
Q3. How were they different from the easier
questions?
THANK YOU for
listening!