ACTIVITY SHEETS IN ENGLISH 8 – 3rd Quarter, Week 4 GENERAL DIRECTIONS: PLEASE DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING ON THIS QUESTIONNAIRE. All answers should be written in 1 whole sheet of paper. Do not forget to write your name, section, and activity numbers for each specific date. Follow the budget of activities assigned per day. DAY 1 – TUESDAY ACTIVITY 1 DIRECTIONS: Read the story carefully. Then, answer the process questions that follow. GUNO AND KOYO From Indonesia Retold by Harold Courlander Everywhere in Java, Sumatra and Celebes, the people know of two men named Guno and Koyo and whenever they hear of them, they smile. For the name Guno means “Helpful” and Guno is really a very unhelpful man; and while Koyo’s name means “rich”, Koyo in fact never has any money at all. Whatever he manages to get his hands on, Guno the “Helpful”, one helps him lose. It is said that one-time Guno persuaded Koyo to go with him to rob an Old Hadji. They crept in the night to the old man’s house and began to dig a hole under the wall. When the hole was large enough for a man to enter, Guno crawled through. He silently gathered the valuables of the sleeping Hadji and handed them neatly on the ground. As Guno prepared to go out, he saw the Hadji’s colorful robe hanging on a peg. He took the robe down and dressed himself in it. He said to himself: “I will soil my new robe if I crawl out the way I came in.” So instead of going through the hole, he went to the door, unlocked it and stepped out. Koyo, expecting Guno to appear though the hole, was startled. Seeing the dignified robe figure coming out of the door, he thought it was the Hadji, and that Guno was still inside. “Ai! The Hadji!” Koyo screamed. And leaving the file of loot where he had placed it on the ground, he began to run. Guno, thinking the Hadji was behind him, hastily threw his new robe away and fled after Koyo. Because the two of them made so much noise fleeing through the village, the neighbors were awakened, and they came out with sticks and sickles to pursue them. Guno and Koyo ran across the open fields until they came panting to the edge of the edge of the river. “Ah, we are lost!” Koyo groaned. “We’ll either be caught or beaten, or we will drown in the flooded river!” “The river isn’t flooded,” Guno said helpfully. “Indeed, the river is flooded.’” Koyo said. “No, it certainly is not flooded,” Guno said. “If it were in flood, it would be muddy and dark. But it is so clear you can almost see the bottom.” Koyo looked. It was true. Faintly in the starlight, he could see the rocks on the bottom of the river. “Well,” he said nervously, “you go first and tell me how it is.” So Guno held his breath and leaped from the rocky ledge. But the riverbed was dry, there was no water at all, and Guno fell into the ground and stones below. As he lay there in great surprise, he heard Koyo shouting to him from the ledge: “How is it? How is it?” Guno was embarrassed. So, he began to make swimming motion with his hands and legs as he lay on the bottom of the river bed, and he called out. “It’s fine below, don’t you see me?” So, Koyo, too, took a deep breath and closed his eyes, and leaped from the ledge. He landed next to Guno, sprawling on the ground. Guno, still waving his arms as though he were swimming turned to Koyo and said: “You can see now that I was right. The river is not in flood.” The people of the village arrived on the ledge. They looked down and shouted at the two men to come out and take their punishment. In terror, Koyo also began to make swimming motions. The villagers, seeing Guno and Koyo swimming this way in the river that had been dry for months, put down their weapons and laughed. They couldn’t bring themselves to punish the silly fugitives. So today, whenever a person tries to get out of a predicament by a ridiculous act, someone is sure to say: “Don’t go swimming in a dry riverbed.” ACTIVITY 1 - PROCESS QUESTIONS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Who are the main characters in the story? What country is the story from? What was ironic about the name of Guno and Koyo? Why did people smile whenever they heard the names? How did Guno and Koyo enter the old man’s house? Why did Koyo panic upon seeing the robed figure coming? What was the true identity of the robed figure? How did the villagers react to Guno and Koyo’s running? What was Guno’s view of the river? Was it flooded and deep or not? What did Guno and Koyo land on when they jumped? How did the villagers overcome their initial rage? How did the two fugitives’ stupidity save them? Why did the saying “Don’t go swimming in a dry riverbed” become popular? What does it mean? DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY ACTIVITY 2 Directions: Look back at the story of GUNO AND KOYO. Using the diagram as a guide, identify the different parts of the plot according to the text you read. GUNO AND KOYO – PLOT DIAGRAM 1-2. EXPOSITION: 3-4. RISING ACTION: 5-6. CLIMAX: 7-8. FALLING ACTION: 9-10. RESOLUTION: ACTIVITY 3 Directions: Look back on the story of GUNO and KOYO and identify what kinds of issues the characters experience within the text. You can use direct quotes from the story to justify your answer. SOCIAL ISSUES MORAL ISSUES ECONOMIC ISSUES 1. 3. 5. 2. 4. 6. 7-10. How can the characters overcome the issues they experienced? DAY 3 - THURSDAY ACTIVITY 4 DIRECTIONS: Identify whether the following examples given are FICTION or NON-FICTION. Write F for fiction, and NF for non-fiction. ___1. Technology and Livelihood Education for Grade 8 ___2. Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo ___3. Putting Research to Work in Science Classrooms ___4. R. Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief ___5. Grimm’s Fairy Tales ___6. Eight Grader’s Guide to Rocks and Minerals ___7. Pluma – Mga Sulating Panitikan ___8. Heograpiya, Kasaysayan, Sibika at Kultura ___9. Grammar for Beginners ___10. George R.R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons ACTIVITY 5 DIRECTIONS: Determine what kind of conflict is being described. Choose whether it is MAN VS. MAN, MAN VS. HIMSELF, MAN VS. SOCIETY, MAN VS. NATURE, MAN VS. GOD, or MAN VS. SUPERNATURAL. ___1. A priest blames God for the death of his son. ___2. A group of college students is trapped by a ghost. ___3. Cardo Dalisay fights against a crime syndicate. ___4. Wednesday struggles to control her own visions. ___5. A man is wrongfully accused by a corrupt judge. ___6. A volcanic eruption puts a family in danger. ___7. The goddess Athena punishes Arachne for her arrogance. ___8. A manananggal snatches innocent victims. ___9. A boy is judged by society for being different. ___10. A hiker gets stranded on a snowy mountain. DAY 4 – FRIDAY ACTIVITY 6 DIRECTIONS: Choose the letter of the best answer. 1. What is a body of written works such as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays that reflects the background of a certain culture? A. epic B. literature C. poetry D. prose 2. Which type of literature is a product of a writer’s imagination? A. feature B. fiction C. parable D. non-fiction 3. Which type of literature is based on facts and talks about real people, places, and events? A. features B. fiction C. non-fiction D. sci-fi 4. What element of the story shows the logical arrangement of events, with a beginning, middle, and end? a. exposition b. character c. plot d. conflict 5. Which is synonymous to mood or atmosphere in the story? a. climax b. denouement c. setting d. character ACTIVITY 7 DIRECTIONS: Watch this video: https://tinyurl.com/ENGLISH8VIDEOACTIVITY Then, following the format of the plot diagram, give the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution of the story.
