Text interpretation activity, using João-de-barro engineer text. This activity is aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
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Dona Graúna was the good old teacher who taught the birds of the forest to read, write and count. She had small eyes and huge glasses on her nose, and when she got angry she would turn red in the face and flutter her wings.
It turns out that, almost always, Dona Graúna was red in the face and flapping her wings, because all her students were taken away from the brink. Not everyone. There was Joãozinho, a studious brown bird, who kept quiet, paying attention to the class, while the others made mischief.
Dona Graúna praised: “This Joãozinho goes far… he IS a student like those of my time”. And then I was talking for two hours about how it was in her time.
While the other students painted their names on the walls, hopped from desk to desk, whispered messages, soiled the furniture and made tricks, Joãozinho studied.
And when he wasn't in class studying, he almost never accompanied his classmates on walks in the woods. He had a weird mania and everyone laughed at him. Joãozinho liked to play with clay. He would go to the banks of the streams and keep kneading clay, good beak, doing things. One day, when Pintassilguinho saw him playing, he gave him a funny nickname: João-de-Barro. After that, everyone at school called him that. But Joãozinho didn't mind the nickname and, to tell the truth, he even liked it.
One morning, he left home with all those plans and, choosing a very nice jenipapeiro, he went to work. He would go to the stream, knead clay and bring it from his beak, to the chosen branch, at the foot of the genipap. His old colleagues, as usual, passed by and laughed at him. They thought it was very funny those weak walls that Joãozinho was building, at the top of the tree.
But after a month, no one laughed anymore. On the contrary, everyone had their eyes wide open in astonishment: Joãozinho had built, at the top of the tree, a small palace, with two floors, doors and all. And he had moved from an ugly grass nest – like those of all his friends – to this beautiful little house!
Ah! That's where it was. Never has the forest walkway been so jealous. But what to do? None of the other birds had been a good student and didn't even have the knowledge and technique to make plans and design such a house. And they even had to be content to continue living in grass nests.
Until today, only João lives in a solid and beautiful mud house. And it is nature's only architect bird.
(Adapted from André de Carvalho)
1. What is the title of the text?
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2. Who is the author of the text?
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3.What is the theme?
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4. How many paragraphs does the text have?
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5. Who are the characters that appear in the text?
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6. Where does the story take place?
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7. In your opinion, what does the expression “levada da breca” mean?
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8. Were all of Dona Graúna's students taken? Justify your answer.
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9. When students made a mess, what did the teacher do?
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10. What nickname did João get and why?
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11. What happened when the other birds saw John's house finished?
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12. Why didn't other birds make houses like John's?
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13. In your opinion, what can we learn from this story?
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At answers are in the link above the header.
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