II. Group Activity/Task
The instructor:
- Directs participants and volunteers to continue reading the story
with their partner(s) and
- Suggests that as they read, they will find a second problem:
We will read to discover the new problem and the events
that resolve it. When you have finished the story, begin to complete
the story map. Then we will look at the story maps as a group.
If there are specific word problems, we will discuss them
later.
III. Summarizing Concepts/Closure
The instructor:
- Invites participants to share their responses to the story and
- Draws attention to:
a) The role that the number "three" plays in
developing the plot. For
example:
In the first problem, the old widow:
- has three sons and
- looks at the painting three times on her way home.
- Her third son provides the idea to weave the
tapestry, and
- It takes three years to weave the brocade.
In the second problem:
- there are three events (each son attempts to retreive
the brocade).
- each son is given three challenges by the fortune teller.
- the third son travels three days and three
nights across the sky.
- it is the third son who fulfils the challenges and
- there are three sections to the whole story, the
middle section has three episodes, and so on
b) The magical powers possessed by:
The brocade itself, the wind, the teeth, the fire, the
ice, the boots...
- Reveals that the class will return to the task of completing the
story maps and focus on the meaning of troublesome words for The
Weaving of a Dream next class.
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