Brer Tiger was dead. LIttle Tiger knocked on Anansi’s door. “Who da be?” called Anansi.
Granny is… Granny is loadin’ up the donkey, basket full on market day with fresh snapper the fisherman bring back from the bay. Granny is clothes washin’ in the river scrubbin’ dirt out on the stone haulin’ crayfish an’ eel from the water on her own. Granny is stories in the moonlight
“Brer Tiger sick and he ded,” came the reply. “ Mi come let yuh know because yuh was good friends. ‘E had a lotta food in de house and mi know him woulda wan’ yuh t’ have it.” Pause and ask student to recap the story so far. Ask what they think will happen next? Anansi’s eyes lit up and he followed Little Tiger to Brer Tiger’s house. Brer Tiger was playing dead on the bed and he planned to jump out when Anansi got close. He would beat Anansi up for all the times he had tricked him. But Anansi stopped just outside Brer Tiger’s house. He was thinking, “Why Likkle Tiger lookin’ so happy if ‘e papa jus’ die?” “Yuh sure ‘e ded?” Anansi asked. Little Tiger nodded and tried to look sad. All this time, Brer Tiger was listening through the open window. “ ’E sneeze ‘fore ‘e ded?” asked Anansi loudly. “No,” said Little Tiger. “ Everybody sneeze ‘fore dem die,” stated Anansi. When Brer Tiger heard this, he gave an almighty sneeze. “Aaachoo!” Anansi turned on his heels and ran, shouting, “Yuh ca’an ketch me like dat, Brer Tiger. I too clever fe yuh. I know dead man don’ sneeze!” Unit 5 Listen up! (page 43) Tell students they will hear part of a talk given by Mr. Tate, an older person, to a group of students. Good morning children, I think it is hard for you to imagine how different life was when I was a child in the 1950s – especially in the area of technology. My aunt was one of the few people in the village who had a television and all the family used to go to her house on Saturday evening to watch it. In those days the pictures were only in black and white – not colour. There were no computers and there was no internet and if I wanted to find information I had to go to the library or find someone clever who knew the answer. This phone (holding it up) gives me access to an encyclopaedia, maps of all the countries in the world, all the books and all the music ever written. When I was a child that would have taken up the space of the local hospital and more. Unit 5 Writing (page 49) Read this poem for students’ enjoyment and to provide context for the writing activity that follows. Read it through twice and then talk about what picture it paints of granny’s life. Ask why they think the poet chose to use Creole. You may also want to ask students how they could say Granny’s words in Standard English.
underneath the guangu tree and a spider web of magic all round we. Granny say, ‘Only de best fe de gran’children, it don’ matter what de price, don’t want no one pointin’ finger.’
Granny nice. Valerie Bloom
from Let Me Touch the Sky (Macmillan Children’s Books, 2000), copyright © Valerie Bloom 2000, used by permission of the author Unit 6 Listen up! (page 51) Tell students you are going to read a weather forecast from a local radio station. Looking at the Eastern Caribbean over the next few days the average daytime maximum temperature will be around 29° C, with a high of 30° C expected on Sunday morning. The minimum temperature is likely to be 26° C on Saturday evening. Skies will be clear or partly cloudy and we can expect a little rain most days. Strong winds are coming from the east so small boats and sea bathers should take care. Unit 6 Assessment (page 58) Tell students you are going to read a poem. The Wind
I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies’ skirts across the grass--
O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! Robert Louis Stevenson
[from A Child’s Garden of Verses]
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