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| − | '''<h4>Hello Students, read the below article then on your own webpage on www.goodtoknow.com, write a short constructed response using "R-A-C-E-A-C-E" as instructed in class.</h4>''' | + | '''<h4>Hello Students, read the below passage below then on your own webpage on www.goodtoknow.com, write a short constructed response using "R-A-C-E" as instructed in class.</h4>''' |
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| − | '''Based on the story, what trait in Ivan allowed for him to be Blessed with luck and wealth?''' | + | '''Based on the story, in a well-written essay, why did the soldier mice get away successfully, but their leaders did not? What does this show about leadership roles?''' |
| − | '''Use at least two details from the passage to support your response.''' | + | '''Write an essay from the passage to support your response. Show how you think based on your own reasoning and the information in the story''' |
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| − | <br><br>'''<h4>THE TALE OF IVAN</h4>''' | + | <br><br>'''<h4>THE MICE AND THE WEASELS</h4>''' |
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| − | There were formerly a man and a woman living in the town of Llanlavan, in the place which is called Hwrdh. And work became scarce, so the man said to his wife, "I will go search for work, and you may live here." So he took fair leave, and traveled far toward the East, and at last came to the house of a farmer and asked for work.
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| − | "What work can ye do?" said the farmer. "I can do all kinds of work," said Ivan. Then they agreed upon three pounds for the year's wages.
| + | The Weasels and the Mice were always up in arms against each other. In every battle, the Weasels carried off the victory, as well as a large number of the Mice, which they ate for dinner the next day. In despair, the Mice called a council, and there it was decided that the Mouse army was always beaten because it had no leaders. So a large number of generals and commanders were appointed from among the most eminent Mice. |
| − | | + | To distinguish themselves from the soldiers in the ranks, the new leaders proudly bound on their heads lofty crests and ornaments of feathers or straw. Then after the long preparation of the Mouse army in all the arts of war, they sent a challenge to the Weasels. |
| − | When the end of the year came his master showed him the three pounds. "See, Ivan," said he, "here's your wage; but if you will give it me back I'll give you a piece of advice instead."
| + | The Weasels accepted the challenge with eagerness, for they were always ready for a fight when a meal was in sight. They immediately attacked the Mouse army in large numbers. Soon the Mouse line gave way before the attack and the whole army fled for cover. The privates easily slipped into their holes, but the Mouse leaders could not squeeze through the narrow openings because of their head-dresses. Not one escaped the teeth of the hungry Weasels. |
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| − | "Give me my wage," said Ivan.
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| − | "No, I'll not," said the master; "I'll explain my advice."
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| − | "Tell it me, then," said Ivan.
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| − | Then said the master, "Never leave the old road for the sake of a new one."
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| − | After that they agreed for another year at the old wages, and at the end of it Ivan took instead a piece of advice, and this was it: "Never lodge where an old man is married to a young woman."
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| − | The same thing happened at the end of the third year, when the piece of advice was: "Honesty is the best policy." | |
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| − | But Ivan would not stay longer, but wanted to go back to his wife.
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| − | "Don't go today," said his master; "my wife bakes tomorrow, and she shall make you a cake to take home to your good woman."
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| − | And when Ivan was going to leave, "Here," said his master, "here is a cake for you to take home to your wife, and, when you are most joyous together, then break the cake, and not sooner."
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| − | So he took fair leave of them and traveled towards home, and at last he came to the town of Wayn Her, and there he met three merchants from Tre Rhyn, of his own town, coming home from Exeter Fair. "Oho! Ivan," said they, "come with us; glad are we to see you. Where have you been so long?"
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| − | "I have been in service," said Ivan, "and now I'm going home to my wife."
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| − | "Oh, come with us! you'll be right welcome." But when they took the new road Ivan kept to the old one. And robbers fell upon them before they had gone far from Ivan as they were going by the fields of the houses in the meadow. They began to cry out, "Thieves!" and Ivan shouted out "Thieves!" too. And when the robbers heard Ivan's shout they ran away, and the merchants went by the new road and Ivan by the old one till they met again at Market-bew.
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| − | "Oh, Ivan," said the merchants, "we are beholding to you; but for you we would have been lost men. Come lodge with us at our cost, and welcome."
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| − | When they came to the place where they used to lodge, Ivan said, "I must see the host."
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| − | "The host," they cried; "what do you want with the host? Here is the hostess, and she's young and pretty. If you want to see the host you'll find him in the kitchen."
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| − | So he went into the kitchen to see the host; he found him a weak old man turning the soup.
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| − | "Oh! oh!" quoth Ivan, "I'll not lodge here, but will go next door."
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| − | "Not yet," said the merchants, "sup with us, and welcome."
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| − | Now it happened that the hostess had plotted with a certain monk in Market-bew to sell off the old man that night while the rest were asleep, and they agreed to lay it on the lodgers.
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| − | So while Ivan was in bed next door, there was a hole in the pine-end of the house, and he saw a light through it. So he got up and looked, and heard the monk speaking. "I had better cover this hole," said he, "or people in the next house may see our deeds." So he stood with his back against it while pirates took away the old man.
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| − | But meanwhile Ivan out with his knife, and putting it through the hole, cut a round piece off the monk's robe. The very next morning the hostess raised the cry that her husband was kidnapped, and as there was neither man nor child in the house but the merchants, she declared they sold him.
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| − | So they were taken and carried to prison, till at last Ivan came to them. "Alas! alas! Ivan," cried they, "bad luck sticks to us; our host was kidnapped last night, and we shall be imprisoned for it."
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| − | "Ah, tell the judges," said Ivan, "to summon the pirates at the docks."
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| − | "Who knows," they replied, "who committed the crime?"
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| − | "Who committed the crime!" said Ivan. "If I cannot prove who committed the crime, imprison me instead of you."
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| − | So he told all he knew, and brought out the piece of cloth from the monk's robe, and with that, the merchants were set at liberty, and the hostess and the monk were seized and imprisoned along with the pirates.
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| − | Then they came all together out of Market-bew, and they said to him: "Come as far as the town Cod Carrn , the Wood of the Heap of Stones of Watching, in the area of Burman." Then their two roads separated, and though the merchants wished Ivan to go with them, he would not go with them, but went straight home to his wife. | |
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| − | And when his wife saw him she said: "Home in the nick of time. Here's a purse of gold that I've found; it has no name, but sure it belongs to the town'slord. I was just thinking what to do when you came."
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| − | Then Ivan thought of the third counsel, and he said "Let us go and give it to the great lord."
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| − | So they went up to the castle, but the great lord was not in it, so they left the purse with the servant that minded the gate, and then they went home again and lived in quiet for a time.
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| − | But one day the great lord stopped at their house for a drink of water, and Ivan's wife said to him: "I hope your lordship found your lordship's purse quite safe with all its money in it."
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| − | "What purse is that you are talking about?" said the lord.
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| − | "Sure, it's your lordship's purse that I left at the castle," said Ivan.
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| − | "Come with me and we will see into the matter," said the lord.
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| − | So Ivan and his wife went up to the castle, and there they pointed out the man to whom they had given the purse, and he had to give it up and was sent away from the castle. And the lord was so pleased with Ivan that he made him his servant instead of the thief.
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| − | "Honesty's the best policy!" said Ivan, as he skipped about in his new quarters. "How joyful I am!"
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| − | Then he thought of his old master's cake that he was to eat when he was most joyful, and when he broke it, to and behold, inside it was his wages for the three years he had been with him.
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The Weasels and the Mice were always up in arms against each other. In every battle, the Weasels carried off the victory, as well as a large number of the Mice, which they ate for dinner the next day. In despair, the Mice called a council, and there it was decided that the Mouse army was always beaten because it had no leaders. So a large number of generals and commanders were appointed from among the most eminent Mice.
To distinguish themselves from the soldiers in the ranks, the new leaders proudly bound on their heads lofty crests and ornaments of feathers or straw. Then after the long preparation of the Mouse army in all the arts of war, they sent a challenge to the Weasels.
The Weasels accepted the challenge with eagerness, for they were always ready for a fight when a meal was in sight. They immediately attacked the Mouse army in large numbers. Soon the Mouse line gave way before the attack and the whole army fled for cover. The privates easily slipped into their holes, but the Mouse leaders could not squeeze through the narrow openings because of their head-dresses. Not one escaped the teeth of the hungry Weasels.
