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Activity 5
Your top three intelligences:
4.29 Body Movement: You like to move, dance, wiggle,
walk, and swim. You are likely good at sports, and
you have good fine motor skills. You may enjoy
taking things apart and putting them back together.
Incorporating body movement into your learning will
help you process and retain information better. Here
are some ideas.
Trace letters and words on each other's
back.
Use magnetic letters, letter blocks, or letters
on index cards to spell words.
Take a walk while discussing a story or
gathering ideas for a story.
Make pipe cleaner letters. Form letters out
of bread dough. After you shape your
letters, bake them and eat them!
Use your whole arm (extend without
bending your elbow) to write letters and
words in the air.
Change the place where you write and use
different kinds of tools to write, ie.,
typewriter, computer, blackboard, or large
pieces of paper.
Write on a mirror with lipstick or soap.
Take a walk and read all the words you find
during the walk.
Handle a Koosh ball or a worry stone during
a study session.
Take a break and do a cross-lateral walk.
4.14 Social: You like to develop ideas and learn from
other people. You like to talk. You have good social
skills. Effective techniques of enhancing your
learning using your social intelligence include taking
part in group discussions or discussing a topic one-
to-one with another person. Find ways to build
reading and writing exercises into your group
activities, such as:
Reading a dialogue or a play with other
people
Doing team learning/investigating projects
Setting up interview questions and
interviewing your family, and writing down
the interview
Writing notes to another instead of talking.
3.86 Nature: You are sensitive to nature and
environment. You probably know the names of
rocks, flowers, birds, and trees. You love to be
outdoors. Here are some ways to use your nature
intelligence in your learning:
Work in the garden.
Read about plants and/or animals.
Study habits of fish or birds.
Read nature magazines.
Go hiking. Take photographs of what you
find on your hike. Write a story describing
the photographs.
I. Objectives:
At the end of the class, the students must have:
A.unlocked the meaning of the unfamiliar words.
B.shown understanding of the story by answering comprehension questions
C.traced the development of the plot through the events in the story.
II.Subject Matter:
The Spider’s Thread by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Materials:
A.charts
B.puzzle
C.paper strips
III.Procedure:
A.Daily Routine
1.Prayer
2.Greetings
3.Checking of Attendance
B.Motivation
The Students will be grouped into five. The teacher will give them paper cut-outs to
form. After they had formed the image, the teacher will ask the following questions:
1.What image had you formed?
2.What ideas can you infer about the story based on the image you had formed?
C.Unlocking Difficulties
Give the meaning of the underlined words.
1.One day, Buddha was strolling along the brink of the lotus pond of Paradise.
2.His eyes fell on a man named Kandata who was squirming with the other sinners in
the bottom of hell.
3.He had noticed a little spider creeping along beside the road.
4.He was about to trample it to death.
5.He was finally exhausted and could not ascend an inch higher.
D.Reading the story entitled The Spider’s Thread by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
One day, the Buddha was strolling along the brink of the lotus pond of Paradise.
Hiseyes fell on a man named Kandata who was squirming with the other sinners in the
bottom of hell. This Kandata had done so many evil things his lifeline but he had to his
credit one good action. Once, while on his way through a deep forest, he had noticed a
little spider creeping along beside the road. He was about to trample it to death when he
suddenly changed his mind and spared the spider’s life. Now, as he looked down into
hell, the Buddha remembered this good deed and thought he would like to deliver
Kandata out of hell. Looking around he saw a spider of Paradise spinning a beautiful
silvery thread on the lotus leaves. The Buddha took up the spider’s thread in his hand
and let it straight down to the bottom of hell which held Kandata securely with the other
sinners in the Pool of Blood on the floor of hell.
On this day, Kandata lifted his head by chance and saw a silver spider’s thread slipping
down toward him from the high heavens. Kandata grasped the thread tightly in his two
hands and began to climb up and up with all his might.
After climbing for a while, he was finally exhausted and could not ascend an inch higher.
He stopped to rest and looked below him. What he saw filled him with fear. For, below
on the thread, countless sinners were climbing eagerly after him up and up, like a
procession of ants.
Kandata blinked his eyes at them with his big mouth hanging foolishly open in surprise
and terror. How could that slender spider spider’s thread which seemed as if it must
break with him alone, ever support the weight of all those people? If it would break in
mid- air, even he himself would have to fall headlong back to Hell.
So Kandata cried out in loud voice. “Hey, you sinners! This thread is mine. Who gave
you permission to come up it? Get down! Get down!”
At that moment, the spider’s thread broke with a snap to the point where Kandata was
hanging. Without even time to utter a cry, Kandata shot down and fell headlong into the
darkness, spinning swiftly around and around like a top.
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E.Analysis
Answer the following questions:
1.Where is the setting of the story?
2.Who is Kandata?
3.What one good deed Kandata had done in his life time?
4.What did Buddha do as he remembered the good deed of Kandata?
5.What is the implication of God laying down the spider’s thread for the first time?
6.What happen after the thread broke?
F.Abstraction
1.What attitude of Kandata was shown in the story? Is it worthy to follow?
G. Application
Write your reflection about the story.
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IV. Assessment
Sequence the events in the story.
V.Assignment
Group Work
Group I. Draw a scene from the story read.
Group II. Write a song/poem about the story.
Group III. Dramatize a scene from the story.
Group IV. Tell the story in an interactive way.
