Journal Topic

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Journal Topic

• Respond to the Quickwrite section of the text
  on p. 383

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Quotation

• We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is
  formed as in filling a vessel drop by drop,
  there is at last a drop which makes it run over
  so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last
  one that makes the heart run over.

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Essential Question

• How are some of the spiritual values of India
  presented in literature?

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The Mice That Set Elephants Free
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Literary Terms to Know

• Fable
• Brief story that teaches a moral lesson or gives
  practical instruction for living
• Characters are usually animals
• Anthropomorphism
• Giving of human qualities to animals
• Epigram
• Short verses that contain a moral

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The Frame Story

• The Outer story writer begins the story
• There is a return to the original narration and
  the writers story concludes

The Inner story - One of the characters begins
to narrate a story to some of the other
characters in the original story
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Vocabulary Words

• Asylum
• A place of refuge a secure retreat
• Minutely
• In very small detail
• Capacity
• power of receiving impressions, knowledge, etc.
  mental ability actual or potential ability to
  perform, yield, or withstand
• Depreciatory
• Disparaging belittling.

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Vocabulary Words (cont.)

• Diversion
• distraction from business, care, etc.
  recreation amusement a pastime
• Retinue
• a procession of attendants
• Fettered
• Confined or restrained

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Panchatantra

• Means five books
• Collection of fables used to teach moral lessons
• Practical guide, rather than religious document
• A frame story priest attempts to teach
  simple-minded princes the wise conduct of life
  (niti)
• Themes include
• Losing/winning friends
• Losing profits and possessions
• Declaring war/establishing peace
• Acting rashly (hastily)

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At Your Desks

• Read the story (pp. 384-385)
• Answer questions 4-7, 9 (p. 386)
• How might this story be used to teach lessons
  about the connection between dharma, karma and
  caste?

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The Mice That Set Elephants Free

• Day 2

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At Your Desks(Day 2)

• Re-Read the story (pp. 384-385)
• Answer questions 1-3, 6-9 (p. 386)

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The Frame Story

• The Outer story
• Spot, a deer, fears pursuing hunters
• 3 small friends, Swift, Gold and Slow offer help
• Spot suggests a friendship and uses epigrams and
  story to help make his point
• Better with the learned dwell,
• Even though it be in hell (384-385)
• and
• Make friends, make friends, however strong
• Or weak they be... (386)

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The Frame Story (cont.)

• The Inner Story
• Group of Elephants trample through mice community
  causing destruction
• Mice meet with elephants and suggest they become
  friends (with mutual benefits). Elephants agree.
• Elephants become hunted and trapped
• Elephants send for mice and mice help free the
  elephants.
• Review assigned questions

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Journal Topic

• What qualities do you associate with night

Free-write your responses
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What is it that makes night both something that
people look forward to and something that people
might dread?
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Night

• from the Rig-Veda

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Background

• Turn to page 366 in textbook for in-class reading
  (jot down important points as we read)
• What important ideas about Hinduism and their
  sacred text, the Rig-Veda did you learn from this
  reading?

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What is the Rig-Veda?

• Rig-Veda is a collection of sacred hymns of the
  Hindu religion
• Rig-Veda means hymns of supreme sacred
  knowledge
• These hymns often sang the praises of the gods,
  as well as the wonders and beauty of nature
• Included were prayers for protection and
  cooperation from natural forces
• Night is one of these sacred hymns

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Literary Terms to Know

• Personification
• Figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing is
  referred to as if it were human
• Ex. The wind whispered in my ear
• Simile
• Figure of speech that makes comparison between 2
  unlike things using like or as
• Life is like a box of chocolatesyou never know
  what youre going to get.

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Literary Terms (cont.)

• Metaphor
• When 2 unlike things are compared directly
• Ex. Her eyes were 2 pools of crystal blue water
• Apostrophe
• Figure of speech in which a speaker directly
  addresses an absent person, aspect of nature, or
  abstract quality as though it were present
• Ex. Wisdom, you are a stranger to me!

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Night

• Read the poem to yourselves and jot down your
  initial reaction. Consider
• Who might be speaking?
• How is Night described/To what is it compared?
• What mood, or feeling, is created?
• What might this poem reveal about the Hindu
  religion?
• Class will re-read the poem aloud then answer
  questions 3-5 on page 369

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At Your Desks

• Read p. 366 for background. Then
• Read Night on page 368
• Answer questions. 1-6 on p. 369