Activities on I Ran Into A Stranger

  Factual Type : 'Who said to whom'

1. “Oh, excuse me please” .
2. “Please excuse me too ”.
3. “Move out of the way,”
4. “While dealing with a stranger, common courtesy you use".
5. "And you never saw the tears in her eyes.”
6. “Are these the flowers you picked for me?”
7. “found’em, out by the tree.”
8. “I’m sorry for the way I acted today.”
9. " I love you anyway.”
10. "I love you too, and I do like the flowers, especially the blue.”

Poetic Device:
1. "Daughter, I’m sorry for the way I acted today." Name and explain the figures of speech. Pick out one more example.
2. I picked’them out because they' re pretty like you. Name and explain the figures of speech. (Two)
3. "common courtesy you use, " Name and explain the figures of speech.( Two)
4. God’s still small voice came to me and said, Name and explain the figures of speech.
Appreciation
 A2 State the different behaviour of mother. OR Describe the mother referred in the extract.
A2 Describe the daughter referred in the extract.
A2. Pick out the lines which show bonding between mother and daughter.
Poetic Creativity
1. Compose four lines about daughter.
2. Compose four lines about mother.
 

Activities On The Person I Am Looking For

Read the extract and fill in the blanks .
1. You should be cautious of......... when raising yourself in the ...... of others.
2. You should not surrender to ......... and .... .
3. The poet is looking for the ....... .
4. You should not expect praise when you....
5. You should not look for......... while you ....... .
6. Cheers should not let your head ........ or ....... .
7. You should not offer........ after a failure.
Ans : 1. not getting lowered, eyes 2. gossips, lies , 3. ideal person 4. win 5. sympathy, loose 6. toss , spin State whether the following statements are true or false.
1. The poet is looking for the ideal person.
2. The poet expects the person should accept advice as a bad pill.
3. The person should be stubborn.
4. He should meet with love and care.
5. He should be courageous enough to die.
6. He should serve as a beacon light.
Match the following.

Column A	Column B
1. Will	a. Die
2. Courage	b.jeer
3. Ignore	c. Lie
4.Expose	d. Live

Poetic Devices
1. "If you do not give in to gossips and lies." Name the figures of speech and explain. Find one more example of this kind.
2. " If you have the will to live and courage to die."Name the figures of speech and explain. Find one more example of this kind.
3. "You are a beacon light for people far and wide."Name the figures of speech and explain. Pick out a line of refrain
4. The poet has used rhyming words for giving a musical quality to the poem. Pick out rhyming words and write down rhyme scheme.
A3. Personal Response / appreciation.
• Write do's and dont's about an ideal person.
• ‘That virtue and success do not go side by side.’ Give your opinion.
• An ideal person is a beacon light for people. Explain

Poetic creativity.
• Arrange the lines of third stanza with different rhyme scheme
If you crave not for praise when you win
And cheers let not your head toss or spin
If you look not for sympathy while you lose
And after a set-back you offer no excuse.
You may be the person I am looking for.

The Person I Am Looking For : Paraphrase

If you do not get lowered in your own eyes
While you raise yourself in those of others
If you do not give in to gossips and lies
Rather heed them not, saying, ‘Who bothers?’
You may be the person I am looking for.

Read the above stanza as following to facilitate the learning. Students will learn by themselves. This method focuses on learning by students. Here teachers are expected to play the role of facilitator. You may be the person I am looking for.
If you do not get lowered in your own eyes
While you raise yourself in those of others
You may be the person I am looking for.
If you do not give in to gossips and lies
Rather heed them not, saying, ‘Who bothers?’

Let's facilitate. 'You' stands for readers/ people. 'I' stands the poet. Let the students try to understand the poem with this pattern. Tell the students to copy the last line of the first stanza and then the first and the second lines. Tell them to read these lines together and try to guess the meaning. Thereafter students will copy the last line of the first stanza and the third and the fourth lines. Tell them to read those lines together and comprehend. Ask them what they learned.
Follow the pattern for the complete poem. Some of the students might find difficulty in comprehending this way. Let's paraphrase the poem.

If you crave not for praise when you win
And look not for sympathy while you lose
If cheers let not your head toss or spin
And after a set-back you offer no excuse.
You may be the person I am looking for.

  If you accept counsel without getting sore
And re-assess yourself in the light thereof
If you pledge not to be obstinate any more
And meet others without any frown or scoff.
You may be the person I am looking for.

  If you have the will to live and courage to die
You are a beacon-light for people far and wide
If you ignore the jeers and, thus, expose the lie
‘That virtue and success do not go side by side.’
You are the person I am looking for.

The poet is looking for the person with certain qualities and good behavior. The poet mentions those qualities in the poem. The person should not get lowered in his eyes while he raises in the eyes of others. His behavior should be crystal clear. He should neither give in to gossips nor lie. Rather he should not pay attention to the gossips. The gossips and lies are not worth to be bothered. He should be indifferent toward success and failure. He should not desire for praise on winning. He should not expect sympathy on loosing. Even grand success should not make feel heady. His feet should be on the land. Even though he gets a set back (failed) he should not beg for excuse. Better he should take the responsibility and work ahead. The poet expects these type of qualities in the person. The poet wants the person to accept advise readily without getting sore. He should think about the advice and behave accordingly. He should not be obstinate. He should have politeness and courtesy. He should not get angry. The poet expects the person to have these qualities. The person the poet is looking for should have strong desire to live and courage to die. Such a person is beacon light for the masses.He should ignore jeers. He should open the lie behind the assumption that 'success and virtue do not go side by side.' Many people are of the opinion that the righteous person do get success and the successful person is not righteous. But it is not true.

Certain Tips for spelling

Spelling is to be caught
Rather than to be taught.

1. Keeping an eye on the word for some more time while reading.
2. Reading the spelling of certain words at early stage loudly.
3. Moving finger below the words while reading.
4. Copying new words in notebook.
5. Making use of crossword.
6. Writing words in sand.
7. Reading wrappers of toffee, cookies, packed groceries etc.
8. Making a list of things in the kitchen, drawing hall, dinning hall, classroom, school premises, garden etc.
9. Finding words in a word . 1. Without changing order. 2. In reverse order.
10. Forming words from a word. ( no repetition of letters )
11. Associating spelling of a word which is often misspelled with something memorable.
 I used to commit mistake while writing 'tomorrow' . Double m or double r  is the confusion for me. Now I remember it as Tom-or-row .
40 - Forty (larger digit smaller spelling )
14 - Fourteen ( Smaller digit, lager spelling )

Some more different tips can be added. Keep the habit of writing full spelling in SMS also.

There are certain rules to form spellings. But memorising them is another problem for the children. So better let them catch the spelling.

Activities on Who Was the Happiest of Them All

Welcome Prafulla Mahure , Mahatma Gandhi Jr.College Gadchandur Dist Chandrapur

Aids To Comprehension

Read the following sentences related to the events in the story. They are given in a jumbled order. Rearrange the events in a proper sequence.

1. Hearing the people's stories about their satisfaction the king felt delighted.
2. He wishpered in to King's ear.
3. The king asked the gathering if they were really contended.
4. One day walking on the terrace the King Amrit and his minister Chandan viewed the weekly market.
5. Everyone started wandering in the garden picking up fruits and flowers and filled in the sacks.
6. In order to check people's contentment first hand the King ordered his minister to summon people to the court.
7. But the minister Chandan was not happy over it.
8. Everyone gathered at the royal garden and the guards handed out sacks to them .
9. The king felt delighted seeing the people having money to buy things.
10. The citizens narrated how they were happy and the King made them feel safe.
11. Seeing that the king asked people why the were sad for leaving the riches.
12. The young man abandoned the sack and swam across to the other side to meet the king.
13. People gathered in the court following minister's summons.
14. The people became excited to enter the garden and take anything they wanted from the garden.
15. Then People were called to the royal garden.
16. Further deep in the garden they spotted trees bearing apples of gold, mangoes of silver and flowers of gems and jewels.
17. They emptied out their sacks and started filling the sacks with valuable fruits and flowers.
18. They found the raging stream stopping their way to reach the rear gate and meet the king.
19. Other people wailing in distress left their sacks and dived into the stream.
20. After filling the sacks with gold, silver,gems and jewels they made their way to the back gate.

Fill in the blanks by choosing appropriate words given in the bracket.

(weekly market, check, Chandan, prosperity, contentment, pomegranate, gold, Greed, silver,boat, beautiful, strange)

1. _________ was the minister to King Amrit.
2. The king and his minister spotted__________ from the terrace of the palace.
3. The king was delighted to see the ___________ of his kingdom.
4. The next day he asked his people about their _________ in the special session of his court.
5. The king decided to ____________ what the people said in the court.
6. The king's special garden was filled with all kinds of _________ and ___________ plants.
7. People saw ripe ____________ bursting with juice.
8. Further deep in the garden they spotted trees bearing apples of__________ and mangoes of____________ .
9. __________ took over their minds and they__________ their sacks to fill with valuables.
10. There were no ___________ to take them across the stream.

Match the following.

Column A	Column B
1. King	a. Meenu
2. Minister	b.rear gate
3. grand daughter	c. royal
4.farmers	d. of gems and jewels
5. kitchens	e. main gate
6. entry for people	f. Amrit
7 meeting king	g. as sweet as nectar
8 garden	h. Chandan
9. flowers	I. enough food
10. fruits	j. good crops

State whether the following sentences are true or false; correct the false sentences.

1. The people spotted juicy apples and plump mangoes hanging from the trees.
2. They emptied their sacks because they were not hungry.
3. On their way back home to their king big boulders blocked their way.
4. The young man abandoned his sack and dived into the stream.
5. The people were happy to leave their sacks.
6. The king had a smile on his lips and Chandan looked sad.
7. People were ashamed of their behaviour.
8. Chandan spotted the gloomy face of the young man in the crowd.
9. The young man didn't pick the jewelled fruits and flowers.
10. The young man had kept some tasty fruits for his daughter.
11. The man was not happy because he couldn't take fruits for his daughter.
12. People's contentment does not end with the things they have.
13. Meenu liked the king more than the minister.

Activities on One Full ,One Half

Aids to Comprehension

1. Complete the statements by choosing suitable alternatives.
1) Chaitanya was a ____________ child.

a) normal b) abnormal c) supernatural d) special

2) Mother felt happy because ____________

a) Chaitanya helped her.
b) she was a special mother.
c) new hopes sprang in her mind .
d) she was not scared.

3) Chaitanya improved a lot because of ____________

a) normal school
b) his mother
c) the special school
d) people around

4) He won the silver medal in ___________.

a) athletic event
b)running race
c) craft
d) dancing

5) Chaitanya's mother was shocked when _____________

a) she read the citation he had received.
b) he returned from state level sport meet.
c) she hugged and kissed him.
d) he did not participate in the marathon race.

2. State whether the following statements are true or false.
1) Chaitanya's mother hid herself from the eyes of the world
2) She used to take help from the people around due to Chaitanya's disability.
3) Inspite of studying in special school his speech did not improve.
4) Academically , he met the expected standard of learning.
5) He had two prizes and a gold medal to his credit.
6) He had competed with1800 participants from the state.
3. Rewrite the statements choosing the suitable alternatives.
a) Chaitanya was selected for the marathon race/Olympic.
b) He could not take part in it due to his mother's illness/ his own illness.
c) Chaitanya's mother wanted to record his future / past achievement and success to inspire other mothers.
d) The mental strength Chaitanya had given is exhaustible / inexhaustible.
e) Except success / love all other things are unimportant.
f) One half ticket was asked for mother/ Chaitanya because of his disability / her senior citizenship.

Activities on A Boy With A Mission

A1. Fill in the blanks and complete the following sentences.
1. The price of the thing that set Reuben's heart racing was....... .
2. Reuben's father ....... made fishing.
3. Reuben requested the shopkeeper to .......
4. He got an idea ....... to raise the money.
5. People in bay Roberts made use of ....... to build their homes.
6. An empty sack could be resold for.......
A2. Choose the correct alternative .
1. On day one Reuben found three / two empty sacks.
2. He told them for ten cent / five cent a piece.
3. He reached home at supper time / breakfast time.
4. His father / mother was the centre of the house.
5. Every day he wandered the town to collect / sell nails empty bags.
6. Reuben was more delighted when the school was closed for the winter / summer.
A3. State whether the following statements are true or false.
1.Reuben never felt cold, tired and hungry.
2. The thought of the object in the store made him forget hunger.
3. He needed more than 20 cents.
4. He arrived at the factory in the evening.
5. The sack buyer took the sacks and gave 20 cent to Reuben.
6. Reuben rushed to the store from the factory.
7.He told the store owner that he had no money.
8. He bought the brooch from the store on the father's day.
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