Monday, September 18, 2017

Sheltering Wings with HOTS Lesson plan - English speaker classes

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HOTS Logic: Underlying assumptions
Part 1.
What assumptions or emotive implications underlie these statements?

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3. He always wanted to be famous: now he is famous, so he must be very happy.


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4. Don’t use this method: it is based on outdated and old-fashioned ideas.


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Over to you! State your opinion, and be ready to discuss:

5. Why do people make assumptions in their daily lives? How does this help them?


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6. Can assumptions be harmful? In what way?
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Sheltering Wings

Harriet Louise Jerome

It was intensely cold. Heavy sleds creaked as they scraped over the jeweled sounding board of dry unyielding snow; the signs above shop doors shrieked and groaned as they swung helplessly to and fro; and the clear, keen air seemed frozen into sharp little crystalline needles that stabbed every living thing that must be out in it. Business men hurried from shelter to shelter; every dog remained at home; not a bird was to be seen or heard. The sparrows had been forced to hide themselves in crevices and holes; the doves found protected corners and huddled together as best they could; many birds were frozen to death.

A dozen or more doves were gathered close under the cornice of the piazza of a certain house, trying with little success to keep warm. Some small sparrows, disturbed and driven from the cozy place they had chosen, saw the doves and came flying across the piazza.
“Dear doves,” chirped the sparrows, “won’t you let us nestle near you? Your bodies look so large and warm.”
“But your coats are frosted with cold. We cannot let you come near us, for we are almost frozen now,” murmured the doves sadly.
“So are we.”
“It looks so warm near your broad wings, gentle doves, Oh, let us come! We are so little, and so very cold!”
“Come,” cooed a dove at last, and a trembling little sparrow fluttered close and nestled under the broad white wing.
“Come,” cooed another dove, and another sparrow found comfort.
“Come! Come! Echoed another warm-hearted bird, and another until at last more than half the doves were sheltering small shivering sparrows beneath their own half-frozen wings.
“My sisters, you are very foolish,” said the other doves, “You mean well, but why do you risk your own beautiful lives to give life to worthless sparrows?”
“Ah! They were so small and so very very cold,” murmured the doves. “Many of us will perish this cruel night; while we have life let us share its meager warmth with those in bitter need.”
Colder and colder grew the day. The sun went down behind the clouds suffused with soft and radiant beauty, but more fiercely and relentlessly swept the wind around the house where the doves and sparrows waited for death.
An hour after sunset a man came up to the house and strode across the piazza. As the door of the hours closed heavily behind him, a little child watching from the window saw something jarred from the cornice fall heavily to the piazza floor.
“Oh papa,” she cried in surprise, “a poor frozen dove has fallen on our porch!”
When he stepped out to pick up the fallen dove the father saw the others under the cornice. They were no longer able to move or to utter a cry, so he brought them in and placed them in a room where they might slowly revive. Soon more than half of the doves could coo gratefully, and raise their stiffened wings. The out from beneath the wing of each revived dove fluttered a living sparrow.
“Look, papa!” cried the child. “Each dove that has come to life was holding a poor little sparrow close to her heart.”
They gently raised the wings of the doves that could not be revived. Not one had a sparrow beneath it.
Colder and fiercer swept the wind without cutting and more piercing grew the frozen crystalline needles of air, but each dove that had sheltered a frost-covered sparrow beneath her own shivering wings lived to rejoice in the glowing gladsome sunshine of the days to come.


Questions:
1. The story takes place _______________________________________________


2. What happened before the events of the story began? ________________________________________________________________________


3. Words in context:

a. What does “crevices and holes” mean? _____________________________________


b. piazza _______________________________________________________________


c. driven ________________________________________________________________


d. revive ________________________________________________________________


4. What is the setting of the story? ___________________________________________


5. What did the sparrows ask of the doves? ____________________________________


6. Why did some of the doves revive, and some not? ____________________________


7. Give an example from your own life that parallels the situation in the story.

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Part 2. After reading the story:
A. After reading Sheltering Wings what assumptions do the doves that don’t help a sparrow make?


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B. How is this proved wrong by later events?


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C. Why do some of the doves survive, and some don’t?

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D. How can you apply this to your own life?

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E. Write 5 ways that you can do kindness to others

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Author bio: Not much is known about this author, she wrote another story: Harriet Louise JEROME The Gap In The Fence [1898]


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