Vocabulary words

valiant, revive, cunningly, cower, fledgling, consolation, singe, gait, veranda, mourning, scuttle, flinch, lept, devour

Reading skills: Suspense, foreshadowing, and prediction.

Review as necessary the definitions used in the lessons:

Setting: the time and place in which the events of the story happen
Fact: a piece of information that can be proved
Fiction: people, places, things, or events that are invented or "made-up"
Personification: giving an animal or object human qualities
Internal Conflict: conflict within a character's mind or heart
External Conflict: takes place between a one character and another (Man vs. nature, man vs. man, man vs society, etc)

Predicting

Watch the following clip with that and the cover of the book predict what the story will be about.

Rikki Tikki Tavi Movie

Discussion Questions

Throught out the story, Nagaina is implied to be "wicked". Do you agree with this characterization? Why or why not? Support with evidence from the story.
Rikki as the protagonist of the story demonstrate positive qualities. But even heroes have negative qualities. Which would you consider negative qualities in Rikki. Support with evidence from the story.
Suspense is given several times in the story. give an example of suspense in the story.
Describe the different types of conflict in the story. Rikki vs. snakes, Darzee and his wife vs. Nag and Nagiana.
Why isn't Rikki sympathetic to Nagaina's plea to spare her last egg?
Which of Rikki's battle took the most courage?
What do Darzee's wife, Nagaina and Teddy's mother all have in common?
Who exhibited bullying behaviors?

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Jeopardary

MINI-LESSON

Anthropomorphism in literature

Anthropomorphism in literature most commonly occurs when human characteristics are attributed to animals. As a literary device, anthropomorphism is strongly associated with art and storytelling with most cultures possessing a long-standing fable tradition with anthropomorphised animals as characters that can stand as commonly recognised types of human behaviour. Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) and The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling are good examples of 19th century literature that all employed anthropomorphic elements. Notable examples of more modern times are Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (1908), A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) and William Horwood's Duncton Wood (1980).