Dorsey's Reading Literature: Monday, October 17, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:

Wednesday is the last day to hand in late work or revised work or extra credit for this term.
You can hand in your left-over hall passes today, next time, or on the 26th.
The term ends on October 26.

Targets for Today:

Reading: Literature Standard 10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Compare and Contrast two stories -- one based loosely on the other.
The Graveyard Book and The Jungle Book

Today’s Agenda:

1. Individual Reading time -- Select a question form your list of responses. Answer it in your composition book -- 1/3 page or more.

2. How Neil Gaiman came to write The Graveyard Book http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/ The Graveyard Book Tour: Week 3 Minute :52 -end of this segment.

Cover of the first edition of The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book: has 14 stories -- Among them are these:

"Mowgli's Brothers": A boy is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther, and then has to fight the tiger Shere Khan. This story has also been published as a short book in its own right: Night-Song in the Jungle.
"Kaa's Hunting": This story takes place before Mowgli fights Shere Khan. When Mowgli is abducted by monkeys, Baloo and Bagheera set out to rescue him with the aid of Chil the kite and Kaa the python. Maxims of Baloo.
"Tiger! Tiger!": Mowgli returns to the human village and is adopted by Messua and her husband who believe him to be their long-lost son Nathoo. But he has trouble adjusting to human life, and Shere Khan still wants to kill him. The story's title is taken from the poem "The Tyger" by William Blake.

The Second Jungle Book: has 16 stories -- Among them are these:

"How Fear Came": This story takes place before Mowgli fights Shere Khan. During a drought, Mowgli and the animals gather at a shrunken river for a 'water truce', during which Hathi the elephant tells the story of how the first tiger got his stripes. This story can be seen as a forerunner of the Just So Stories.
"The King's Ankus": Mowgli discovers a jewelled object beneath the Cold Lairs which he later discards carelessly, not realising that men will kill each other to possess it. Note: the first edition of The Second Jungle Book inadvertently omits the final 500 words of this story, in which Mowgli returns the treasure to its hiding-place to prevent further killings. Although the error was corrected in later printings, it was picked up by some later editions.
"The Spring Running": Mowgli, now almost seventeen years old, is growing restless for reasons he cannot understand. On an aimless run through the jungle he stumbles across the village where his adopted mother Messua is now living with her two-year-old son, and is torn between staying with her and returning to the jungle.