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The Ants and the Grasshopper
We have been reading the story of The Ants and the Grasshopper which is a fable.A fable is a short story with animals that are given human like qualities and it teaches you a lesson.
Find specific information
1.what bush creatures are included in this story?
ant,grasshopper,wasp,huhu grubs,weta.
2. What did the grasshopper do during the first
summer of the story? Lay in the sun and make
music.
3.what services did the grasshopper provide the
ant over the winter? Served food,watched them
when they slept and fixed the holes in the roof.
4.How did the huhu grubs pay the grasshopper?
They paid him in food.
Find the moral
5.The moral of the story is that the grasshopper
learnt his lesson and to fight for himself and
prepare for next winter and it teaches us to work
hard so you're prepared for hard times.
Make inferences
Why has the author chosen to make the ants
speak in short sentences and give brief replies?
Because they are small animals that don't talk a
lot and they are too busy working.
Show your understanding
1.Why did the grasshopper decide to charge the
huhu grubs for making music for them? So he
can get ready for the next winter and to give half
of the food to the ants and so he has lots of food
next winter.
2.Why did the ants sigh at the grasshopper?
They wanted him to learn a lesson because he
didn’t listen when they said to gather resources.
3.Why did the grasshopper ask the huhu grubs to
give some food to the ant’s? Because the ants
kept him alive over winter.
4.What elements of the fable did this story use?
It made the characters seem like humans and it
taught us a lesson .
Describe a character = grasshopper
Selfish,rude,nonlistener. Then he becomes a nice,
kind grasshopper.
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
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