Misoso
CHALLENGING WORDS
shiveredbegrudge
sprawling
starvation
obedience
overtook
prowling
leopard
outshine
aroma
SUMMARY
This is a collection of African "once upon a time" stories for fun. Sometimes the stories tell lessons.--- Conversation Questions---
(1) / Describe the story.(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Share the part that you liked the best.
(2) / Imagine you are the animal depicted in the story, Kindai and the Ape. How would you feel?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / What would you have done about the baby?
(3) / Suppose you are the Leader would you help the young ape take the baby?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / What would you do?
(4) / Relate if you could help someone get out a thorn. What would you do?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Have you ever had a thorn?
(5) / Define the word "thorny".
(Answer) / Part of a briar or branch that easily goes into the skin causing pain.
(Follow Up) / Replace thorn with another problem and see if the story still fits.
(6) / What happened to the ape that fell out of the tree?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Why was it painful?
(7) / What caused the man not to hurl the spear at the ape?
(Answer) / The ape did not try to get away.
(Follow Up) / What noise convinced the man to take out the thorn?
(8) / What did the ape do when the thorn was gone?
(Answer) / He looked at the man with thanks.
(Follow Up) / What did the man do next?
(9) / What did his wife say about saving the ape?
(Answer) / She wanted to know why he saved the ape because apes tear up their village.
(Follow Up) / Would you help some one that might hurt you?
(10) / How did the other apes feel about the man?
(Answer) / They said someone was good.
(Follow Up) / Have you ever helped someone and later they tried to hurt you?
Activities
1. / Write an ad on the billboard. Tell why you need help from the apes. Who tears up your house and garden? What do you need them to do?
2. / Write a newspaper article about the baby being taken by the ape and why the ape gave the baby back.
3. / Write a list of foods that you could find for apes so they would leave you garden alone.
4. / Write a paragraph about your favorite animal.
Introductions
1. / Bring in a map or use the map of Africa from the book. Talk about it and all the stories we know starting "once upon a time." Today we are going to read "Misoso." Let's read and see what happens.2. / Show the student a picture of Africa and tell the student to tell you all that they know about Africa. Say now let's read about Misoso and see what they tell us.
3. / Tell the student that this book is about a ape that has a thorn in it's foot and how someone get's it out. Say now let's read the book Misoso and see what else happens.
Book Title: Misoso, "Kindai and the Ape"
Author: Verna Aardema / Illustrator: Reynold RuffinsISBN: 0-679-83430-3 / # of Text Pages: 90 AR: 5.0 LEX: 760
Building Oral Vocabulary
1 / starvation / 2 / begrudge / 3 / sprawling
Prediction Questions
1 / What will happen to the baby?
2 / What will happen to the ape that fell out of the tree?
3 / What will the ape do when the thorn is out?