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Describe the plight and the behavior of the rice farmers.
Summarize your work in the following table:
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Did the characters live up to cultural expectations—that is, norms of behavior—for their role in society?
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Pair, square, and share again.
Five minutes as pair. Five minutes as a square. Ten minutes to share.
Consider the following. This fable comes from India. In the ancient Sanskrit language, the word raja is a name that signifies a monarch or prince with military and administrative authority. A raja belongs to the social order (varna) of Kashatriya, which is the second highest caste, just beneath Brahmin. The wife of a raja—a “queen”—is called rani. In the fable, Rani is the name of the village girl, whom the raja assumes to be naïve. Is the fable
teller making a gendered point? Is the little girl Rani somewhat like a queen, and is she showing smarter, more compassionate traits than the raja—an insensitive and humbled male ruler.
Or is the fable teller questioning social norms associated with names and roles? Here, is the village girl Rani as important, or more important, than the raja ruler?
How Much Rice
Now as a class, apply your English to compute some basic math. Have a chief mathematician go to the board and record the calculations of the class. Complete your answers and the table below without use of cell phones and calculators.
_______ How many grains of rice are there to one handful of rice?
_______ How many handfuls are there to one bowlful? _______ How many bowlfuls are there to one bagful? _______ How many bagfuls are there to one basketful? _______ How many basketfuls are there to one storehouse? _______ How many grains of rice are there in one storehouse?
Nouns and Articles
Nouns name people, places, animals and things.
One Grain Of Rice
Smaller Measurement
1 Larger Measurement
grains
1 handful
handfuls
1 bowlful
bowlfuls
1 bagful
bagfuls
1 basketful
basketfuls
1 storehouse
teenager person
Can Tho Bridge dog place animal
apple thing
a dog an uncle
Nouns can be singular and plural. Singular is one (1).
Plural is more than one (2+).
Using a and an:
We put a or an in front of singular nouns. A and an are called indefinite articles.
a teenager a bridge
an apple an education
1. We use a with nouns that begin with:
b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, y, z.
a woman a flower a hand
a pencil a car
a room
a cat
a student a teenager
2. We use an with nouns that begin with a, e, i, o, u.
an egg
an umbrella an elephant
an ice cream an ear
an apple an orange
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