Lesson 1 How Others See Me

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"He is in his room upstairs," Mother said, her face becoming serious. "His leg is bothering him again." I did not hear anything more because I had to go back to the cart to unhitch Labang. But I hardly tied him under the barn when I heard Father calling me. I met my brother Leon going to bring up the trunks. As I passed through the kitchen, there were Mother and my sister Aurelia and Maria and it seemed to me they were crying, all of them. There was no light in Father's room. There was no movement. He sat in the big armchair by the western window, and a star shone directly through it. He was smoking, but he removed the roll of tobacco from his mouth when he saw me. He laid it carefully on the windowsill before speaking. "Did you meet anybody on the way?" he asked. "No, Father," I said. "Nobody passes through the Waig at night." He reached for his roll of tobacco and hitched himself up in the chair. "She is very beautiful, Father." "Was she afraid of Labang?" My father had not raised his voice, but the room seemed to resound with it. And again I saw her eyes on the long curving horns and the arm of my brother Leon around her shoulders. "No, Father, she was not afraid." "On the way---" "She looked at the stars, Father. And Manong Leon sang." "What did he sing?" "---Sky Sown with Stars... She sang with him." He was silent again. I could hear the low voices of Mother and my sister Aurelia downstairs. There was also the voice of my brother Leon, and I thought that Father's voice must have been like it when Father was young. He had laid the roll of tobacco on the windowsill once more. I watched the smoke waver faintly upward from the lighted end and vanish slowly into the night outside. The door opened and my brother Leon and Maria came in. "Have you watered Labang?" Father spoke to me. I told him that Labang was resting yet under the barn. "It is time you watered him, my son," my father said. I looked at Maria and she was lovely. She was tall. Beside my brother Leon, she was tall and very still. Then I went out, and in the darkened hall the fragrance of her was like a morning when papayas are in bloom. Grade 7 English Learning Package 22
YOUR DISCOVERY TASKS Task 1. First Impressions 1. What are your ideas about city women? 2. Is Maria a typical city woman? Illustrate her based on what Baldo had seen from their first meeting to their arrival at home. 3. Will Maria a good wife for Leon? Justify your agreement or disagreement by citing lines/details/events in the story. Task 2. Rite of Passage 1. Was Maria accepted by the family? 2. Trace their journey showing the different tests she had undergone. 3. Use a six-frame comic strip to present your answers. 4. Do you agree in the way Leon‘s family tested Maria? Support your answer based on the text and your experience. Task 4. Mirror Image 1. Complete the following phrases. Get your answers from the selections. Example: white is to good as black is to evil a. fragrance is to sweet as _________ is to papayas in bloom b. Nagrebcan is to sky sown with stars as Ermita beach is to __________ c. cars and noise are to city as clean air, free of dust and smoke is to_________ d. Maria is to __________ as Noel is to _________ e. call of Labang is to earth trembling underfoot as _________ is to a drum 2. Answer the following questions: a. What two items are being compared in each phrase? b. Why are these items compared? c. What words are used to show this comparison? d. How is this figure of speech different from simile and metaphor? 3. Bring out a picture of a scenic spot in the Philippines. Study it and write descriptive sentences using analogy. Task 3. Paint Me a Picture 1. Study the sentences and find out the relationship between the bold and italicized words. a. There was a world of laughter between them and in them. b. Crickets chirped from their homes in the cracks in the banks. c. Father gave instructions to pass the Waig and into the fields instead of the camino real. d. Labang‘s white coat, which I had washed and brushed that morning, glistened like beaten cotton. 2. What is being modified in by the groups of words of laughter? in the cracks? to pass the Waig and into the fields? which I had washed and brushed that morning? 3. How are these modifiers or complements formed? 4. What do noun complements do in sentences? 5. Look for examples of noun complements in the story. Identify their forms using the table below. Grade 7 English Learning Package 23
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