the Lady and the Tiger

In the short story "the Lady and the Tiger", by Frank Stockton we use several of our pacing guide strategies in order to pick apart the text and decide some kind of overall tone, because in this story the ending is really all up to the reader. Stockton give us some defining character traits of the princess, such as the fact that she is proud, and seemingly quite selfish in her hatred for the maiden, but she is also very compassionate and cares for the boy a lot which she shows just by attending his "trial". The strategies from the pacing guide that i felt aided me the most were these:


1.b We used context clues to define unfamiliar words, especially in exercises 1&2 where we decided what vocabulary from the word bank best fit a given sentence, as well as in exercise 3 where we take words and short phrases out of context and define in our own words what those things mean.


2.d we worked together in a group of 4 in order to help each other with definitions as well as to come up with contextual ideas we might not have come up with individually. By combining our unique ideas and thought processes we are able to gain multiple perspectives about certain elements of the story, giving us a much more complete image of what the story is saying.

6.a tells us to explore personal issues through the text. Based on the text, its hard to infer what decision the princess might make, she loves the boy, but hates the maiden. To answer this question we have to think introspectively, and decide weather or not we world forsake our friend just to get in the way of our enemies.