Main Idea:
1.
sums up the
text in one to two sentences
2.
includes
important information from the text
3.
main idea =
topic + author’s claim
How to Write
Main idea
To write a main idea, you need to:
THINK (what is the big
event that happened?
LIST (key details that
support the big idea)
Main Idea Framework:
SOMEONE + WANTED + BUT
For Example:
SOMEONE = Cinderella
WANTED = dreamed of going
to the party
BUT = her evil stepmother
didn’t allow her to go
Main Idea = Cinderella dreamed of going to the party, but her evil stepmother didn’t allow her to go.
Lembar Kerja Peserta Didik
Petunjuk Kerja:
1.
Peserta didik
terbagi dalam 6 (enam) kelompok.
2. Tiap kelompok
mendapatkan teks yang berbeda (https://read.gov/aesop/052.html)
dan berdiskusi mengidentifikasi detil spesifik teks (character, events happened).
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Text 1.
The Shepherd Boy & the Wolf
A Shepherd Boy tended his master's Sheep near a dark forest not far from
the village. Soon he found life in the pasture very dull. All he could do to
amuse himself was to talk to his dog or play on his shepherd's pipe.
One day as he sat watching the Sheep and the quiet forest, and thinking
what he would do should he see a Wolf, he thought of a plan to amuse himself.
His Master had told him to call for help should a Wolf attack the flock,
and the Villagers would drive it away. So now, though he had not seen anything
that even looked like a Wolf, he ran toward the village shouting at the top of
his voice, "Wolf! Wolf!"
As he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran
in great excitement to the pasture. But when they got there they found the Boy
doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them.
A few days later the Shepherd Boy again shouted, "Wolf! Wolf!"
Again the Villagers ran to help him, only to be laughed at again.
Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows
were creeping out over the pasture, a Wolf really did spring from the
underbrush and fall upon the Sheep.
In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting "Wolf! Wolf!"
But though the Villagers heard the cry, they did not run to help him as they
had before. "He cannot fool us again," they said.
The Wolf killed a great many of the Boy's sheep and then slipped away into
the forest.
Text 2.
A Dog and a Cock, who were the
best of friends, wished very much to see something of the world. So they
decided to leave the farmyard and to set out into the world along the road that
led to the woods. The two comrades traveled along in the very best of spirits
and without meeting any adventure to speak of.
At nightfall the Cock, looking
for a place to roost, as was his custom, spied nearby a hollow tree that he
thought would do very nicely for a night's lodging. The Dog could creep inside
and the Cock would fly up on one of the branches. So said, so done, and both
slept very comfortably.
With the first glimmer of dawn
the Cock awoke. For the moment he forgot just where he was. He thought he was
still in the farmyard where it had been his duty to arouse the household at
daybreak. So standing on tip-toes he flapped his wings and crowed lustily. But
instead of awakening the farmer, he awakened a Fox not far off in the wood. The
Fox immediately had rosy visions of a very delicious breakfast. Hurrying to the
tree where the Cock was roosting, he said very politely:
"A hearty welcome to our
woods, honored sir. I cannot tell you how glad I am to see you here. I am quite
sure we shall become the closest of friends."
"I feel highly flattered,
kind sir," replied the Cock slyly. "If you will please go around to
the door of my house at the foot of the tree, my porter will let you in."
The hungry but unsuspecting Fox,
went around the tree as he was told, and in a twinkling the Dog had seized him.
The Tortoise & the Ducks
The Tortoise, you know, carries
his house on his back. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot leave home. They
say that Jupiter punished him so, because he was such a lazy stay-at-home that
he would not go to Jupiter's wedding, even when especially invited.
After many years, Tortoise began
to wish he had gone to that wedding. When he saw how gaily the birds flew about
and how the Hare and the Chipmunk and all the other animals ran nimbly by,
always eager to see everything there was to be seen, the Tortoise felt very sad
and discontented. He wanted to see the world too, and there he was with a house
on his back and little short legs that could hardly drag him along.
One day he met a pair of Ducks
and told them all his trouble.
"We can help you to see the
world," said the Ducks. "Take hold of this stick with your teeth and
we will carry you far up in the air where you can see the whole countryside.
But keep quiet or you will be sorry."
The Tortoise was very glad
indeed. He seized the stick firmly with his teeth, the two Ducks took hold of
it one at each end, and away they sailed up toward the clouds.
Just then a Crow flew by. He was
very much astonished at the strange sight and cried:
"This must surely be the
King of Tortoises!"
"Why certainly—" began
the Tortoise.
But as he opened his mouth to say
these foolish words he lost his hold on the stick, and down he fell to the
ground, where he was dashed to pieces on a rock.
Text 4.
The Wolf & the Kid
There was once a little Kid whose
growing horns made him think he was a grown-up Billy Goat and able to take care
of himself. So one evening when the flock started home from the pasture and his
mother called, the Kid paid no heed and kept right on nibbling the tender
grass. A little later when he lifted his head, the flock was gone.
He was all alone. The sun was
sinking. Long shadows came creeping over the ground. A chilly little wind came
creeping with them making scary noises in the grass. The Kid shivered as he
thought of the terrible Wolf. Then he started wildly over the field, bleating
for his mother. But not half-way, near a clump of trees, there was the Wolf!
The Kid knew there was little
hope for him.
"Please, Mr. Wolf," he
said trembling, "I know you are going to eat me. But first please pipe me
a tune, for I want to dance and be merry as long as I can."
The Wolf liked the idea of a
little music before eating, so he struck up a merry tune and the Kid leaped and
frisked gaily.
Meanwhile, the flock was moving
slowly homeward. In the still evening air the Wolf's piping carried far. The
Shepherd Dogs pricked up their ears. They recognized the song the Wolf sings
before a feast, and in a moment they were racing back to the pasture. The
Wolf's song ended suddenly, and as he ran, with the Dogs at his heels, he
called himself a fool for turning piper to please a Kid, when he should have
stuck to his butcher's trade.
Text 5.
The Lion & the Mouse
A Lion lay asleep in the forest,
his great head resting on his paws. A timid little Mouse came upon him
unexpectedly, and in her fright and haste to get away, ran across the Lion's
nose. Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny
creature to kill her.
"Spare me!" begged the
poor Mouse. "Please let me go and some day I will surely repay you."
The Lion was much amused to think
that a Mouse could ever help him. But he was generous and finally let the Mouse
go.
Some days later, while stalking
his prey in the forest, the Lion was caught in the toils of a hunter's net.
Unable to free himself, he filled the forest with his angry roaring. The Mouse
knew the voice and quickly found the Lion struggling in the net. Running to one
of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the
Lion was free.
"You laughed when I said I
would repay you," said the Mouse. "Now you see that even a Mouse can
help a Lion."
Text 6.
The Owl & the
Grasshopper
The Owl
always takes her sleep during the day. Then after sundown, when the rosy light
fades from the sky and the shadows rise slowly through the wood, out she comes
ruffling and blinking from the old hollow tree. Now her weird
"hoo-hoo-hoo-oo-oo" echoes through the quiet wood, and she begins her
hunt for the bugs and beetles, frogs and mice she likes so well to eat.
Now
there was a certain old Owl who had become very cross and hard to please as she
grew older, especially if anything disturbed her daily slumbers. One warm
summer afternoon as she dozed away in her den in the old oak tree, a
Grasshopper nearby began a joyous but very raspy song. Out popped the old Owl's
head from the opening in the tree that served her both for door and for window.
"Get
away from here, sir," she said to the Grasshopper. "Have you no
manners? You should at least respect my age and leave me to sleep in
quiet!"
But the
Grasshopper answered saucily that he had as much right to his place in the sun
as the Owl had to her place in the old oak. Then he struck up a louder and
still more rasping tune.
The
wise old Owl knew quite well that it would do no good to argue with the
Grasshopper, nor with anybody else for that matter. Besides, her eyes were not
sharp enough by day to permit her to punish the Grasshopper as he deserved. So
she laid aside all hard words and spoke very kindly to him.
"Well
sir," she said, "if I must stay awake, I am going to settle right
down to enjoy your singing. Now that I think of it, I have a wonderful wine
here, sent me from Olympus, of which I am told Apollo drinks before he sings to
the high gods. Please come up and taste this delicious drink with me. I know it
will make you sing like Apollo himself."
The foolish Grasshopper was
taken in by the Owl's flattering words. Up he jumped to the Owl's den, but as
soon as he was near enough so the old Owl could see him clearly, she pounced
upon him and ate him up.
References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztOvQuUihkU&t=24s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cB2SOv42uQ
https://read.gov/aesop/052.html
