Group the yourselves into four. Each p chooses a representative to pair up with another representative of the other group.

Solve the puzzle which is an image of a lion and an image of a tiger. Each pair is given three minutes to finish the task. Then go back to your respective groups to create words that associate with the said animals. For this task, you are given two minutes.

James Thurber's witty short stories and lumpy cartoons were a popular mainstay of The New Yorker magazine in the 1930s and 1940s. A Midwestern boy with an urbane twist, Thurber mixed comical reminiscences of his Ohio childhood with wry observations

on modern times and the battle of the sexes. (His best-known story is The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty, the tale of a henpecked husband who escapes into heroic daydreams.) Thurber's funny, loopy, absurdist cartoons featured men, women, dogs and other strange animals. He was by turns hilarious and melancholy, and his darker nature seemed to come out in stories and cartoons about husbands and wives: the wives often domineering and sarcastic, the husbands harried or bitterly triumphant. Like Mark Twain, Thurber became increasingly morose in his last decade, although he continued to write until his death. His books include the spoof Is Sex Necessary? (1929, with E.B. White), the fanciful "autobiography" My Life and Hard Times (1933), the New Yorker memoir The Years With Ross (1959), and the short story collections The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) and The Thurber Carnival (1933). He also wrote the 1950 children's book The Thirteen Clocks. With Elliot Nugent he wrote the play The Male Animal (published 1940).

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By the title itself, what do you think is the story all about? What kind of story is it? What is then a fable?

 A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse,

that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim. A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech and other powers of humankind.

 One morning the tiger woke up in the jungle and told his mate that he was

king of beasts. "Leo the lion, is king of beasts," she said. "We need a change," said the tiger. "The creatures are crying for a change." The tigress listenend but she could hear no crying, except that of her cubs. "I'll be king of beasts by the time the moon rises," said the tiger. "It will be a yellow moon with stripes in my honor." "Oh, sure," said the tigress as she went to look after her young, one of whom, a male, very like his father, had got an imaginary thorn in his paw. The tiger prowled through the jungle till he came to the lion's den. "Come out," he roared, "and greet the king of beasts! The king is dead, long live the king!" Inside the den, the lioness woke her mate. "The king is here to see you," she said. "What king," he inquired sleepily. "The king of beasts," she said.

 "I am the king of beasts," roared Leo, and he charged out of the den to defend

his crown against the pretender. It was a terrible fight, and it lasted until the setting of the sun. All the animals of the jungle joined in, some taking the side of the tiger and others the side of the lion. Every creature from the aardvark to the zebra took part in the struggle to overthrow the lion or to repulse the tiger, and some did not know which they were fighting for, and some fought for both, and some fought whoever was nearest, and some fought for the sake of fighting. "What are we fighting for," someone asked the aardvark. "The old order," said the aardvark. "What are we dying for," someone asked the zebra. "The new order," said the zebra. When the moon rose, fevered and gibbous, it shone upon a jungle in which nothing stirred except for a macaw and a cockatoo, screaming in horror. All the beasts were dead except the tiger, and his days were numbered and his time was ticking away. He was monarch of all he surveyed, but it didn't seem to mean anything.

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Who are the characters in the story? Describe each of them.

Who are they representing in the society today?

6. Why do you think the tiger wants to over throne the king? What causes the lion to defend his crown? 7. What conflicts are shown in the story? What problems does this fable address? To whom are these addressed to? 8. What are the worst and the best thing you did to get something that you want? Cite happenings. 9. If you were the lion, would you do the same? Why or why not?

10. Give some social situations where conflict is inevitable and can be related to what happened in the story.

11. What do you think are the possible causes of these things? How about the effects or outcomes of these conflicts? 12. What do you think is the authors aim in writing the story? 13. What lesson/s did you get from the story?

With the same group make a deconstruction of the story. You are given enough time to brainstorm on how you want the story to end and another time to present it to the class through a short drama or play.

In ten minutes, answer the following in two to three sentences. Each item is good for three points.

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What prompts the tiger to decide that he would be king?

2. What does this traditional phrase mean, The King is dead, long live the King!? 3. What detail or idea did the writer present to show that everyone in the jungle was involved in the fight? 4. Describe the jungle fight. What does this suggest about animals? About people? 5. If the story ended differently, would the tiger be a better king? Why or why not?

 In a short bond paper, create your own fable. Choose animals with human characteristics suited for your story and indicate the moral lesson which you want to convey to your readers. Make it as creative as you can. Criteria: Creativity of the presentation of the story Authenticity of the story Authenticity of the story ---10 ---5 ---10 _______ 25