Reading Log (Short Story)

 Pre- Reading

No. 1

Day : Thursday

Titles : 1. The Ignorant Man

2. Two Poor Boys

Why I am interesting to read : 1. The story about the ignorant man.

2. The relationship between these boys.

Question before I read : 1. How the ignorant nan live?

2. What these boys doing?

No. 2

Day : Friday

Titles : 1. The Poor Man’s Wealth.

2. The Giant and the Traveller

Why I am interesting to read : 1. The Man's Wealth.

2. The Giant Generousity.

Question before I read : 1. What's going on with his wealth?

2. What will the giant doing after helping the traveler?

No. 3

Day : Saturday

Titles : 1. Pride has a fall

2. Why the sky is far away?

Why I am interesting to read : 1. The asculptor's pride.

2. The folktale story about sky.

Question before I read : 1. What happen with the asculptor?

2. What happen to the sky?

No. 4

Day : Sunday

Titles : 1. Clever Thief

2. Why the sky is far away?

Why I am interesting to read : 1. The thief's cleverness.

2. The folktale about the sky.

Question before I read : 1. What will the thief do?

2. what does the folktale tell about?

No. 5

Day : Monday

Titles : 1. Use All Your Strength

2. Clever Fish

Why I am interesting to read : 1. The girl's wise father

2. How the fish fooled around the fisherman

Question before I read : 1. What will the girl do with the branch?

2. What happen to the fish after get caught by the fisherman?

Report

Day 1

Thursday

Date : May 6, 2021

Time : 15.15 - 15.25

Title /Page : The Ignorant Man

Sources : https://www.advance-africa.com/English-Moral-Stories.html

Characters : Denuu, Saint, the Fish.

Main points of the story : The story is about an ignorant man who live in the wood by himself and his cow, he likes to live in the wood instead live in the village because he think there are so many evils out there. So, he enjoy his quiet live in the wood but he remains restless.

New Vocabularies found : Restless, Immense, Piety, Wandering.

Comments : I like this story and the moral behind it, the ignorant man feels restless but he just stay away from the other.

Title /Page : Two Poor Boys

Sources : https://www.advance-africa.com/English-Moral-Stories.html

Characters : Joe and Bill.

Main points of the story : The story is about two poor boys in New York city who swept and cleaned the streets for their living. One day Bill can't wandering around the street to searching for the food because he's so weak and the weather is so cold so his bestfriend, Joe his best friend gave him his food.

New Vocabularies found : Anguish

Comments : This story is really heart warming, these bestfriend is really loyal to each other.

Day 2 

Friday

Date : May 7, 2021

Time : 17.33 - 17.40

Title /Page : The Poor Man’s Wealth.

Sources : https://www.advance-africa.com/English-Moral-Stories.html

Characters : Ramchand and Premchand

Main points of the story : This story is about the poor Ramchand who live in peace with his condition even if he is broke and Premchand the Landlord who has a lot of wealthy but he could not live in peace because he was always worried about his property.

New Vocabularies found : Keen.

Comments : I think this story is kinda complicated why the landlord always worried about his wealth, why don't him save his cash on the bank than in the box.

Title /Page : The Giant and the Traveller

Sources : https://www.advance-africa.com/English-Moral-Stories.html

Characters : The Traveler, and The giant.

Main points of the story : This story is about the giant who helped the traveler, the traveler is cold so he heating him self by blowing the air through his mout then when the giant gave him heat soup he blow it to cool it down, but the giant felt he was being fooled so he got angry.

New Vocabularies found : Shivering, Roaming.

Comments : The moral of this story is making no sense, it's not the traveler fault if the giant didn't know if the air on our mouth could be heat or cold.

Day 3 

Saturday

Date : May 8, 2021

Time : 18.40 - 18.27

Title /Page : Pride Has a Fall

Sources : https://www.advance-africa.com/English-Moral-Stories.html

Characters : The Asculptor, God and the Demon of Death.

Main points of the story : This story is about a famous asculptor who has a high pride and doesn't want his art having a flaw. One day his pride is lead him to his death.

New Vocabularies found : Blemish, Perplexed, Motionless, Astonished, Asculptor.

Comments : This story is really tricky and the God is smart how to turn down someone who has high pride.

Title /Page : Night Watchman

Sources : https://www.advance-africa.com/English-Moral-Stories.html

Characters : The Manager, Raju.

Main points of the story : This story is about the firm manager who need to hire an applicant for being night watchman and he found someone who match for this position, Raju the applicant who suffer from sleeplessness.

New Vocabularies found : Firm.

Comments : There is an advantages behind sufferer, just like Raju who suffer from sleeplessness then he got the job for being the night watchman.

Day 4 

Sunday

Date : May 9, 2021

Time : 18.30 - 18.35

Title /Page : Clever Thief

Sources : https://www.advance-africa.com/English-Moral-Stories.html

Characters : Devan, The Other Thief, The King.

Main points of the story : The story is about a clever thief, Devan who robbed the rich and gave it to the sick and needy, the other thief is jealous to him and challenge him but Devan is clever so he successfully completed the challenge and became the leader.

New Vocabularies found : -

Comments : I really like with Devan generousity and his clever.

Title /Page : Why the sky is far away?

Sources : https://www.advance-africa.com/English-Moral-Stories.html

Characters : Raman, Bhim, and Mr. Frank.

Main points of the story : This story is about two kids named Raman and Bhim who feel bored with their lunch so they throw it away to the garbage but their teacher saw it and then before the class ended the teacher tell them story after they get the message of the story they never throw their food again to the garbage.

New Vocabularies found : Slouched, Sailed, Pile.

Comments : I like how Mr. Frank give lessons to students through folktale because sometimes the kids is really into and believe to the tale.

Day 5 

Monday

Date : May 10, 2021

Time : 17.10 - 17.18

Title /Page : Use All Your Strength

Sources : https://www.advance-africa.com/English-Moral-Stories.html

Characters : Diana, Diana's Father

Main points of the story : The story is about Diana who tried to moved a big tree branch, she ask for his father advise could she do it? her father say yes she could but she can't so se got disappointed.

New Vocabularies found : Encouraged, Wisdom, Interdependence.

Comments : The moral story is really good, it tells if ask for help when in need is not a sign of weakness but a sign of wisdom so don't be proud to ask for help.

Title /Page : Clever Fish

Sources : https://www.imgstatus.com/clever-fish-story/

Characters : The Fisherman, Tiny little fish

Main points of the story : This story is about the fisherman who was fishing and suddenly he caught a tiny little fish, the little fish asked to be released and promised something to the fisherman but the the tiny little fish is lying.

New Vocabularies found : - 

Comments : I don't like this story even the moral of this story is you have to be really clever to save your life from such challenging moments but lying and make fake promise is not good.