Mowgli's Brothers - Extract 1
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To know how to use the text and story to help me understand unfamiliar words and phrases Task 1 : Read each extract carefully. ➢ Read it out loud. ➢ Read it quietly. ➢ Read it with an adult. Write down any unfamiliar words and phrases. Talk about meaning of these words and write them down. Talk about the story – Who are the characters? What happened first, aften? Mowgli's Brothers - Extract 1 (Where Shere Khan follows baby Mowgli to the Wolf Cave) The moonlight was blocked out of the mouth of the cave, for Shere Khan's great square head and shoulders were thrust into the entrance. Tabaqui, behind him, was squeaking, "My lord, my lord, it went in here!" "Shere Khan does us great honour," said Father Wolf, but his eyes were very angry. "What does Shere Khan need?" "My quarry. A man's cub went this way," said Shere Khan. "Its parents have run off. Give it to me." Shere Khan had jumped at a woodcutter's campfire, as Father Wolf had said, and was furious from the pain of his burned feet. But Father Wolf knew that the mouth of the cave was too narrow for a tiger to come in by. Even where he was, Shere Khan's shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man's would be if he tried to fight in a barrel. "The Wolves are a free people," said Father Wolf. "They take orders from the Head of the Pack, and not from any striped cattle-killer. The man's cub is ours - to kill if we choose." "Ye choose and ye do not choose! What talk is this of choosing? By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog's den for my fair dues? It is I, Shere Khan, who speak!" The tiger's roar filled the cave with thunder. Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan. "And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man's cub is mine, Lungri--mine to me! He shall not be killed. He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs, frog-eater, fish-killer, he shall hunt thee! Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world! Go!" Mowgli's Brothers - Extract 2 (Where the wolf cubs are judged by the pack) Father Wolf waited till his cubs could run a little, and then on the night of the Pack Meeting took them and Mowgli and Mother Wolf to the Council Rock--a hilltop covered with stones and boulders where a hundred wolves could hide. Akela, the great grey Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and colour, from badger-coloured veterans who could handle a buck alone, to young black three-year-olds who thought they could. The Lone Wolf had led them for a year now. He had fallen twice into a wolf trap in his youth, and once he had been beaten and left for dead; so he knew the manners and customs of men. There was very little talking at the Rock. The cubs tumbled over each other in the centre of the circle where their mothers and fathers sat, and now and again a senior wolf would go quietly up to a cub, look at him carefully, and return to his place on noiseless feet. Sometimes a mother would push her cub far out into the moonlight to be sure that he had not been overlooked. Akela from his rock would cry, "Ye know the Law--ye know the Law. Look well, O Wolves!" And the anxious mothers would take up the call: "Look-- look well, O Wolves!" At last--and Mother Wolf's neck bristles lifted as the time came--Father Wolf pushed 'Mowgli the Frog,' as they called him, into the centre, where he sat laughing and playing with some pebbles that glistened in the moonlight. Task 2: To know how to use evidence from the text 1. Read each extract carefully again. 2. Think about each discussion point, then write down your thoughts and responses. 3. Use the text to support your answers and responses. Which characters are What clues are there described in a way that that this was written How is the narrator's language different to paints a picture in your 100 years ago? mind? the speech? What age do you think this is written for? How does Kipling build suspense? Explain your thinking. What dangers appear in the extracts? How would the extracts be different if they were set in a different setting, Can you find examples of Kipling's such as woodland in the style? Annotate the text to show UK countryside? where you have found these features. Kipling's Style o 3rd person narrator – knows everything o Animals as characters – talking/thinking like humans o Settings in faraway places, such as India and Africa o Teaching/encouraging young ones by adults o Rules and roles very important o Bravery vs. courage o Danger - a part of everyday life Task 3: To know how to use speech marks to show dialogue • Look at the power point- Direct speech and dialogue • Read the following two extracts carefully • Choose your level of difficulty- Challenge try both! Extract 1 - Level 1: • Underline the direct speech • Add speech marks to 'hug' the direct speech • CHALLENGE: highlight the commas which separate the speech from the reporting clauses Good hunting! cried Baloo, sitting up on his haunches. Oho, Baloo, what dost thou do here? We are hunting, said Baloo carelessly. He knew that you must not hurry Kaa. Give me permission to come with you, said Kaa. Psshaw! The branches are not what they were when I was young. Maybe thy great weight has something to do with the matter, said Baloo. I came very near to falling on my last hunt and the noise of my slipping waked the Bandar- log, and they called me most evil names. Footless, yellow earth-worm, said Bagheera under his whiskers, as though he were trying to remember something. Sssss! Have they ever called me that? said Kaa. Something of that kind. They will say anything, even that thou hast lost all thy teeth, Bagheera went on sweetly. Now a snake, especially a wary old python like Kaa, very seldom shows that he is angry, but Baloo and Bagheera could see the big swallowing muscles on either side of Kaa's throat ripple and bulge. The trouble is this, Kaa. Those nut-stealers and pickers of palm leaves have stolen away our man-cub of whom thou hast perhaps heard. (abridged version) Extract 2 – Level 2 - Punctuating Dialogue • Read this extract carefully with a partner • Add speech marks to 'hug' the direct speech • Decide what punctuation mark should be used at each * and annotate/edit • Underline in different colours to show who is speaking (Baloo, Bagheera or Kaa) • Annotate/edit to show where a new line should begin. They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in the afternoon sun, licking his lips as he thought of his dinner to come. He has not eaten* said Baloo, with a grunt of relief. Be careful, Bagheera! He is always a little blind after he has changed his skin, and very quick to strike. Good hunting! cried Baloo, sitting up on his haunches. Good hunting for us all* he answered. Oho, Baloo, what dost thou do here? Good hunting, Bagheera. One of us at least needs food. I am as empty as a dried well. We are hunting, said Baloo carelessly. He knew that you must not hurry Kaa. He is too big. Give me permission to come with you* said Kaa. Psshaw! The branches are not what they were when I was young. Rotten twigs and dry boughs are they all. Maybe thy great weight has something to do with the matter, said Baloo. I am a fair length-a fair length, said Kaa with a little pride. But for all that, it is the fault of this new-grown timber. I came very near to falling on my last hunt and the noise of my slipping waked the Bandar-log, and they called me most evil names. Footless, yellow earth-worm* said Bagheera under his whiskers, as though he were trying to remember something. Sssss! Have they ever called me that* said Kaa. Something of that kind it was that they shouted to us last moon, but we never noticed them. They will say anything, even that thou hast lost all thy teeth, Bagheera went on sweetly. Now a snake, especially a wary old python like Kaa, very seldom shows that he is angry, but Baloo and Bagheera could see the big swallowing muscles on either side of Kaa's throat ripple and bulge. The trouble is this, Kaa. Those nut- stealers and pickers of palm leaves have stolen away our man-cub of whom thou hast perhaps heard. (abridged version) Task 4 : To know how to use features of story writing Converting playscript to story. • Read through this play script based on a scene in 'Kaa's Hunting' • Edit to make the dialogue sound like modern speech e.g.