READING LOG: FABLE

PRE-READING

No	Day	Title	Why I am interesting to read	Questions before I read
1.	Friday	The Ant and the Grasshopper	Because of the picture. It showed 2 seasons, spring and winter. In spring, grasshopper looked happy but not with ant, he worked so hard. Whereas, in winter, ant looked happy but not with grasshopper, he looked sad. So, I was curious about what caused that.	Why grasshopper looked happy in spring but sad in winter? Why ant worked hard in spring but happy and enjoy in winter?
		The Ass in the Lion’s Skin	Because of the picture. It showed an ass with a lion’s skin on his back. It made me curious about the reason behind it.	Why an ass put a lion’s skin on his back?
2.	Saturday	The Shepherd’s Boy and the Wolf	Because I wanted to know the English version of this story. Why I said that, because I have seen this story on TV.	The first picture showed the shepherd boy scream and the villagers came, but the second showed he scream because of the wolf but no one came to help him. Why it could be happen.
		The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse	Because I wanted to know why in th first picture the mice were in peace even with a few foods, but the second picture they were attack by a cat even with a lot of luxury foods.	What is the different between the town mouse’s life with the country one?
3.	Monday	Hercules and the Wagoner	Because of the title, it mentioned Hercules. As long as I know that Hercules related to Greek, but how could it be in fable. So, I was curious about it.	Is he the same Hercules just like in Greek’s story?
		The Birds, the Beast, and the Bat	Because of the title. It quite unique, because the three animals in the title have the same initial which is “B”.	Why the title must be like that? Is that because they have similarities of differences?
4.	Tuesday	The Wolves and the Sheep	Because of the title. I was curious whether is this the same story like I know or not.	Is this the common story like wolf hunted on sheep or not?
		The Stag at the River	Because of the picture. I have never read story about the stag and the lion.	I was wondering why in the picture showed a lion but the title didn’t mention it?

AFTER READING

Day 1

Friday, February 22^nd, 2019

Time	21.50-21.53
Title & Page	The Ant and the Grasshopper & page 1
Sources	www.kids-pages.com/folders/stories/Aesops_Fables/page1.htm
Characters	The Ant and the Grasshopper
Main point of the story	In summer instead of working and prepared for winter just like ant did, grasshopper preferred to have fun, play, and sing. As the result, in winter, when ant happy and enjoy his life, grasshopper had nothing to life with.
New Vocabularies found	Leisure, shelter, and minding.
Comment	I like this fable because even the story is simple, but it has a valuable message.
What I can get from the story (moral value)	We have to prepared everything we need for the hard days to come.
Time	21.54-21.56
Title & Page	The Ass in the Lion’s Skin & page 2
Sources	www.kids-pages.com/folders/stories/Aesops_Fables/page2.htm
Characters	The Ass and the Fox
Main point of the story	The ass found a lion’s skin in the forest and put it on his back in order to scared the small animals. He made it, but he forgot to keep his mouth shut. So, when he accidentally mock, the fox heard it and knew that he was not a lion but an ass who pretend to be a lion.
New Vocabularies found	The ass, wandered, brayed, triumphantly, and mock.
Comment	I like this fable, because it has a moral value not just a story to entertain.
What I can get from the story (moral value)	The real fakers will finally give themselves away.

Day 2

Saturday, February 23^rd, 2019

Time	15.30-15.40
Title & Page	The Shepherd’s Boy and the Wolf
Sources	www.kids-pages.com/folders/stories/Aesops_Fables/page9.htm
Characters	The Shepherd’s Boy and the Villagers
Main point of the story	The shepherd boy has an idea to escape from the monotony of his life with yelled to the village that there was a wolf who danger his life and his sheep. He made it, he lied to the villagers twice. But when the real wolf came, no one came to help him even he yelled so loud.
New Vocabularies found	-
Comment	I like this fable, because even I already knew it, but this version is more simple.
What I can get from the story (moral value)	Once you lose your credibility, no one will believe you any more, even when you speak the truth.
Time	16.45-16.57
Title & Page	The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
Sources	www.kids-pages.com/folders/stories/Aesops_Fables/page12.htm
Characters	The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
Main point of the story	The country mouse invited the town mouse to spend some time in her place. They have a great time in peace even in poverty and lack of foods. Then, the town mouse did the same thing to the country mouse. But they spent a bad time with being hunted by the cat even they live in luxury and plenty of foods. So, the country mouse preferred to live in poverty but in peace and harmony.
New Vocabularies found	Modest and despite
Comment	I like this story, because even this story is short, but the message delivered well.
What I can get from the story (moral value)	Better a peaceful life in poverty, that luxury at the cost of losing your life.

Day 3

Monday, February 25^th, 2019

Time	21.20-21.38
Title & Page	Hercules and the Wagoner
Sources	www.read.gov/aesop/038.html
Characters	Hercules and the Wagoner of Farmer
Main point of the story	A farmer who was driving a wagon, accidentally one of the wheels sank to the hub in a rut. But, instead of fixing that problem, the farmer preferred to do nothing just asked for help from Hercules. Then, Hercules came but he didn’t want to help someone who did nothing to fix his condition. So, the farmer tried to fix the wagon by himself and continued his trip with a good lesson learned.
New Vocabularies found	Wagon, miry, standstill, hub, rut, aid, urge, and whining.
Comment	I like this story, because this story contained the same message with our prophet Muhammad SAW’s hadits which said that Allah SWT won’t change people’s condition, if they didn’t do anything to change it.
What I can get from the story (moral value)	Self help is the best help. Heaven helps those who help themselves.
Time	21.40-21.57
Title & Page	The Birds, the Beast, and the Bat
Sources	www.read.gov/aesop/061.html
Characters	The Birds, the Beast, the Bat, and the Animals
Main point of the story	The birds and the beast declared war against each other. But the bat family had not openly joined either side in the war. They were politic race. They only align with superior side. As the result, when the war was over, the bat family drive out by the animals and since then they hide in a dark tower and flying out only in the night.
New Vocabularies found	Quarrel, persecution, pouncing, hare, feast, tide, deceit, and deserted.
Comment	I like this story, because it told us not to be a deceitful person.
What I can get from the story (moral value)	The deceitful have no friends.

Day 4

Tuesday, February 26^th, 2019

Time	05.45-05.57
Title & Page	The Wolves and the Sheep
Sources	www.read.gov/aesop/144.html
Characters	The Wolves, the Sheep, and the Dog
Main point of the story	A pack of wolves tried to catch and eat the sheep, but they couldn’t because the dogs kept them safe. Then, the wolves tried to trick the sheep to persuade the dogs to go away. They made it, the sheep have fooled by them. Finally, the wolves had the grandest feast of their lives.
New Vocabularies found	Lurked, pasture, grazed, hostility, stirring up, grandest, feast, and foes.
Comment	I like this story, because this story almost same with the story of the turtle who being fooled by the monkey.
What I can get from the story (moral value)	Do not give up friends for foes.
Time	05.58-06.07
Title & Page	The Stag at the River & page 5
Sources	www.kids-pages.com/folders/stories/Aesops_Fables/page5.htm
Characters	The Stag and the Lion
Main point of the story	The stag was drink at the river while pondering how amazing his horn but not with his legs, it was ashamed. Suddenly, a lion came and tried to catch him, but he couldn’t run because his horn stuck in the branches so the lion catches him easily. He regrets because he despised the most precious things and appreciate the wrong ones.
New Vocabularies found	The stag, quench, exquisite, exclaimed, pondering, and despise.
Comment	I like this story, because this story is unpredictable.
What I can get from the story (moral value)	Most often, we despise the most precious things and appreciate the wrong ones.

Thanks for coming and happy reading :)