LOLA JACOBS ASSIGNMENTS © 2024
ENG1517
ASSIGNMENT NO: 01
YEAR : 2024
PREVIEW:
Question 1.1 (
Going Away is a therapeutic story intended to help children cope with change. Discuss
how the theme of change is handled in the story. As part of your answer, your must
identify the different kinds of change suggested in the story. You will receive a mark
out of four for your language.
The theme of change is delicately handled in "Going Away," offering children a
comforting perspective on transitions. The story illustrates various forms of change,
including natural transformations like the caterpillar's metamorphosis into a butterfly
and seasonal migration of birds, as well as personal changes such as moving homes
and the emotions associated with it.
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ASSIGNMENT 01
Compulsory for examination admission.
Unit 1: Genres in Children’s Literature; and
Unit 2: Theories Underlying Children’s Literature.
Question 1
Access the story Going Away, via the following link:
https://www.nalibali.org/story-library/multilingual-stories/going-away
Answer the following questions based on this story.
I sit alongside my grandmother on the grass. We have been watching a caterpillar change into a
butterfly. Gran says this is called
metamorphosis. “Metamorphosis” is a big word in my vocabulary. “Watch, Yusuf,” Gran
whispers. The chrysalis where the
caterpillar is hiding cracks opens slowly, piece by piece until a red and black butterfly comes out.
The butterfly rests for a while,
drying its wings, and then flutters away. 4 5 Gran says that all of Nature’s creatures are born,
grow, and then move away.
Birds do that, too. They migrate to warmer places during winter. The stray ginger cat that slept in
our sandpit also went away.
I wonder who I will grow up to be. Will I go away? I don’t want to. Mum sometimes says we will
need to move to another house
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where there are better schools. That makes me feel sad. We have always lived with Gran. If we
move away, the new garden
might not be as magical as this one. I might be all alone there. I am afraid. “Look, Yusuf!” Gran
cries out. On the wall,
watching us is a ginger cat. She jumps down and walks over to the sandpit. She curls up on the
sand. Our stray cat has returned
to her sandpit home. I decide that it will be okay if I go away, too. I can always return home to
Gran’s magical garden.
Nal’ibali fun
Ideas to talk about
Yusuf lives with his mom and gran. Who do you live with? Think about changes have you
experienced in your life. How did you feel about these changes when they happened? How do
you feel about them now?
Visual
Look closely at the picture on the first two pages of the story. Can you find: three birds, two
spiders, a caterpillar, a chrysalis, and a butterfly?
Reading
This is a story about change. Can you find all the different changes in the story that Yusuf sees
or thinks about?
Writing
Write an acrostic poem about change. Start each line of your poem with a letter from word
“change”.
Craft
Make a butterfly. Fold a sheet of paper in half. Paint some dots of paint on one half of the page
and then fold the paper over so that the paint prints on the other half as well. Open the paper.
When the paint is dry, draw the outline of a butterfly with open wings across the painted sheet of
paper. Cut out the butterfly shape. Glue the middle part of it to a toilet roll. Add some feelers
made from paper or paper clips.
Performance
Role play a butterfly’s life cycle: 1. a caterpillar moving along a leaf and eating it 2. the caterpillar
making a chrysalis 3. the caterpillar inside the chysallis 4. the chrysallis cracking open and the
butterfly coming out 5. the butterfly flying around.
ENG1517
ASSIGNMENT NO: 01
YEAR : 2024
PREVIEW:
Question 1.1 (
Going Away is a therapeutic story intended to help children cope with change. Discuss
how the theme of change is handled in the story. As part of your answer, your must
identify the different kinds of change suggested in the story. You will receive a mark
out of four for your language.
The theme of change is delicately handled in "Going Away," offering children a
comforting perspective on transitions. The story illustrates various forms of change,
including natural transformations like the caterpillar's metamorphosis into a butterfly
and seasonal migration of birds, as well as personal changes such as moving homes
and the emotions associated with it.
, LOLA JACOBS ASSIGNMENTS © 2024
ASSIGNMENT 01
Compulsory for examination admission.
Unit 1: Genres in Children’s Literature; and
Unit 2: Theories Underlying Children’s Literature.
Question 1
Access the story Going Away, via the following link:
https://www.nalibali.org/story-library/multilingual-stories/going-away
Answer the following questions based on this story.
I sit alongside my grandmother on the grass. We have been watching a caterpillar change into a
butterfly. Gran says this is called
metamorphosis. “Metamorphosis” is a big word in my vocabulary. “Watch, Yusuf,” Gran
whispers. The chrysalis where the
caterpillar is hiding cracks opens slowly, piece by piece until a red and black butterfly comes out.
The butterfly rests for a while,
drying its wings, and then flutters away. 4 5 Gran says that all of Nature’s creatures are born,
grow, and then move away.
Birds do that, too. They migrate to warmer places during winter. The stray ginger cat that slept in
our sandpit also went away.
I wonder who I will grow up to be. Will I go away? I don’t want to. Mum sometimes says we will
need to move to another house
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where there are better schools. That makes me feel sad. We have always lived with Gran. If we
move away, the new garden
might not be as magical as this one. I might be all alone there. I am afraid. “Look, Yusuf!” Gran
cries out. On the wall,
watching us is a ginger cat. She jumps down and walks over to the sandpit. She curls up on the
sand. Our stray cat has returned
to her sandpit home. I decide that it will be okay if I go away, too. I can always return home to
Gran’s magical garden.
Nal’ibali fun
Ideas to talk about
Yusuf lives with his mom and gran. Who do you live with? Think about changes have you
experienced in your life. How did you feel about these changes when they happened? How do
you feel about them now?
Visual
Look closely at the picture on the first two pages of the story. Can you find: three birds, two
spiders, a caterpillar, a chrysalis, and a butterfly?
Reading
This is a story about change. Can you find all the different changes in the story that Yusuf sees
or thinks about?
Writing
Write an acrostic poem about change. Start each line of your poem with a letter from word
“change”.
Craft
Make a butterfly. Fold a sheet of paper in half. Paint some dots of paint on one half of the page
and then fold the paper over so that the paint prints on the other half as well. Open the paper.
When the paint is dry, draw the outline of a butterfly with open wings across the painted sheet of
paper. Cut out the butterfly shape. Glue the middle part of it to a toilet roll. Add some feelers
made from paper or paper clips.
Performance
Role play a butterfly’s life cycle: 1. a caterpillar moving along a leaf and eating it 2. the caterpillar
making a chrysalis 3. the caterpillar inside the chysallis 4. the chrysallis cracking open and the
butterfly coming out 5. the butterfly flying around.
