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Date: ________________________
HOTS Logic:
Underlying assumptions
Part
1.
What assumptions or emotive implications underlie these
statements?
1.
This method is scientifically proven to be effective
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2.Thousands
of people have already signed up: join now!
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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Don’t use this method: it is based on outdated and old-fashioned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?
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3.
Words in context:
a.
What does “crevices and holes” mean?
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b.
piazza
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c.
driven
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d.
revive
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4.
What is the setting of the story?
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5.
What did the sparrows ask of the doves?
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6.
Why did some of the doves revive, and some not?
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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?
1.
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2.
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3.
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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
1.
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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.
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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]
While you are reading this story, enjoy this beautiful music!
