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Your Name: Jennifer Lopez Romero Book Title: Anansi does the Impossible
Author: Verna Aardema Illustrator: Lisa Desimini
Genre: Folklore Publisher/Year: Simon and Schuster, 2000
STYLE and Language: Using examples from the book, explain the following: word
choices, dialogue, rhythm, rhyme and sentence length. Also, explain unexpected insights
or interesting information the reader learns from the story. Give examples.
The author uses long sentences with easy words for a child to understand.
It has words in other language, in the beginning the book has a glossary with the
meaning of the words.
CHARACTER – With examples from the book give the following: Who is the main
character? Explain the character’s personality traits.
How can the reader relate to the character, become involved in the story?
Who are the supporting characters?
Anansi is the main character of the story
The sky god
Anansi’s wife (Aso)
A python
Fairies
1. PLOT: summarize the major events in the story-
Long ago all tales were owned by the Sky God, one day Anansi the Spider wanted to
buy the tales for the earth people. His wife Aso fear that he was taking a morsel too big
to fit his mouth. Well, we shall see said Anansi and the next day he went to see the Sky
God. Puffing out his chest, Anansi told the Sky God that he wants to buy his stories.
The Sky God beat his thunder and answer, he bellowed “what makes you think you can
buy them?”. Kings have tried and failed said the Sky God, Anansi asks him what do
you want in exchange for them? The Sky God replies bring me a live python, a real
fairy, and forty-seven hornets. I can manage that said Anansi, then he hurried straight
home. Anansi told her wife what the Sky God wants. Aso thought and thought and he
said “I know how to begin” she whispered in Anansi’s ear and they ran nearby river
and waited. A python came slithering to drink water and Anansi said than it is longer
than he is. The big snack asks “what are you two arguing about?” the long that we’re
siting reply Anansi. “I know that I am longer” said the python and Anansi said “you
look shorter to me”. The python lay down on the log, putting his nose even with one
end of it. Anansi told him that the tail is too short, Anansi gave the tail a pull, now he
noses is short. Aso said “tie his tail to the other end then he can make himself longer”.
Anansi took a long bush rope and began winding around the snake’s tale all the way up
to the python’s head. Anansi took the snake to the Sky God and give it to him but he
still missing the real fairy and the forty-seven stinging hornets. Anansi went home and
told Aso what the Sky God said and she help him. She suggested, that he carved a
wooden fairy and covered it with sticky gum from a mimosa tree. Aso put a tiny dish
of banana fu-fu into its hand. A fairy got her hand stuck on the doll and Anansi pulled
the strings with the doll and the fairy attached to her. He took the fairy to the Sky God,
then the Sky God roared “how can a measly creature like you perform these impossible
tasks?” but you still missing the forty-seven hornets said the Sky God. Anansi went
home and told her wife what the Sky God said. Aso suggested that he plucked a bottle-
shape gourd from a calabash tree, whittled a wooden cork for it, and filled it with water
rom the river. He did and he place it in a bush, Anansi took the hornets and give them
to the Sky God when he saw Anansi, he flashed his lightning. “No” he cried, he threw
up his hands in resignation and give the stories to Anansi. Anansi thanked the Sky God
then he went home, that night the people of the village gathered inside a circle of fires
for storytelling.
PIAGET-COGNITIVE-INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
Name the stage: concrete operational_ and the ag: 7 to 11____________________