Week 9 Reading Part B: The Iguana and the Turtle
The Iguana and the Turtle
After reading this story it reminded me a bit of the Turtle and the Hare. I like both stories the moral in the Turtle and the Hare better, but this one was more comedic so to say. I think if I was to retell the story I would sort of make the moral relevant to the sang "if you all saw your friends jumping off a cliff, that does not mean you should." In the end the iguana was foolish and the turtle ended up bailing on his friend. I think the story ended abruptly so I think I would start off by summarizing the story and then go into more detail on how the iguana learned that you should not always do what your friends are doing and that you need to know who your true friends are.
Another way I could go with the retelling of the story was to add on if the old man had actually wanted the turtle for to marry his granddaughter and if there was someway he could make the turtle/iguana a human. My last idea would be if the turtle had gotten away and the iguana had not but instead the old man kept the iguana as a pet who he treated like royalty.
Bibliography: This story is part of the Filipino Tales unit. Story source: Filipino Popular Tales by Dean S. Fansler (1921).Link to Story
After reading this story it reminded me a bit of the Turtle and the Hare. I like both stories the moral in the Turtle and the Hare better, but this one was more comedic so to say. I think if I was to retell the story I would sort of make the moral relevant to the sang "if you all saw your friends jumping off a cliff, that does not mean you should." In the end the iguana was foolish and the turtle ended up bailing on his friend. I think the story ended abruptly so I think I would start off by summarizing the story and then go into more detail on how the iguana learned that you should not always do what your friends are doing and that you need to know who your true friends are.
Another way I could go with the retelling of the story was to add on if the old man had actually wanted the turtle for to marry his granddaughter and if there was someway he could make the turtle/iguana a human. My last idea would be if the turtle had gotten away and the iguana had not but instead the old man kept the iguana as a pet who he treated like royalty.
Bibliography: This story is part of the Filipino Tales unit. Story source: Filipino Popular Tales by Dean S. Fansler (1921).Link to Story
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