Answer to Question #313853 in English for Sphesihle Zuma

Question

Find any folklore, fable, myth or legend in the language you are planning to teach and paste,

copy or retype it in into your assignment.

 If you do have access to the English version of the folklore, fable, myth or legend, paste, copy or

retype it in your assignment. If you do not have an English version, please summarise the text in

200 - 250 words in English.

Answer the following questions based on the folklore, fable, myth or legend (please answer in English):

3.1 What pre-reading activities would you do based on the folklore, fable, myth or legend? (5)

3.2 How will you go about to teach the plot and characters in the story? (5)

3.3 What is the moral/message of the story and how would you teach it to learners? (5)

3.4 What post-reading activities would you do? (5)

3.5 Formulate five (5) questions that you would ask learners based on the

text. Each question should be on a different level of thinking. (5)

3.6 Indicate the level of thinking in brackets next to the question.

Answer 1

The summer before 5th grade, I happily enrolled in a Greek mythology summer school class. We read and studied all the famous stories, from 'King Midas and the Golden Touch', to Daedalus and Icarus. It was super-nerdy fun. I liked how the stories were fantastical, but had deeper meaning.

Myths, legends, fables and folktales are types of stories originally passed by word-of-mouth, but are now found in writing. They vary in their subject matter, from explaining the natural world and delivering life lessons, to exaggerated events and people grounded in history. What they have in common, though, is their durability as both forms of entertainment and as teaching tools.