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PERSPECTIVE

Be in their shoes!

You distributed birthday invitations to everyone except a classmate who had just joined. As you were leaving, you

saw him crying. Why was the boy crying? What could

you do or say?

Your sister was a riding her new bicycle. She suddenly entered the house crying.

Why do you think she was crying and what could you do about it?

ObjectiveWe will compare our

perspective with the author’s by making connections.

Building perspective!

What did the author do?

How did the author feel?

What would you do if you were the author?

How would you feel?

Read with perspective!

Bahati was the Princess of the land of Songhai.

For many years, Songhai didn’t receive a single drop of rain. Famine struck the land. All the sources of water dried out.

As a result, people had no food or water. Plants started to die and animals suffered.

Why did Songhai have no water?

How do you think the people of Songhai were

feeling? And why?

Princess Bahati’s father, the King of Songhai, worked hard with his advisors to find a solution.

Princess Bahati liked sitting with her father during these meetings. She listened as advisors made one suggestion after another.

According to you, what was Princess Bahati thinking as she listened to the advisors giving suggestions?

Can you tell the antonym for ‘solution’ ?

Princess Bahati started to think about a possible solution as well. She couldn’t stand to see the people, plants, and animals suffer.

She wanted to share her ideas with her father, but he considered Princess Bahati far too young to be taken seriously in the matters of running a kingdom.

Why did the father not listen to Princess Bahati’s suggestion?

How do you think the Princess felt?

She went to her mother, the Queen.

The Queen listened to her proposal, and promised to help Princess Bahati get a fair hearing from the King.

The Queen pleaded with the King and his advisors to hear out Princess Bahati.

What did Princess Bahati do to convince her father?

Why do you think she did this to convince her

father?

Finally, the King agreed and granted Princess Bahati the chance to explain her plan.

Princess Bahati stood before the royal court and started explaining her idea.

Why do you think the King agreed to listen to Princess

Bahati?

How did the Princess feel as she explained her

idea?

She advised that the people of Songhai could harvest rain water the next time it rains, by digging a big water reservoir.

They can also direct water from the river into the reservoir.

The King and his advisors were impressed. They accepted her plan, and executed it with the citizens of Songhai.

What did Princess Bahati propose before the royal

court?

If you were the advisor of the king, how would you feel listening to Princess Bahati’s

plan?

Princess Bahati led the youth of Songhai to help execute the plan.

Together, they dug a big reservoir.

The next time it rained, all of the rain water was directed into the reservoir.

The river water was also channeled into it.

Where was all the rainwater directed to?

How did Princess Bahati feel leading a team of

workers and why?

Eventually, there was abundant water for people, animals and plants alike.

Thanks to Princess Bahati, new life now flourished in the land of Songhai.

Was the plan proposed by Princess Bahati successful?

How can you tell?

If you were from the Kingdom of Songhai, how would you thank

Princess Bahati for her successful plan?

Be the Character!

Be the Character!

You are the mother of Princess Bahati. Narrate the story from your perspective to a friend.

How did that make you feel?

What happened in the story?

What did you do?

What were the actions of the other

characters?

Record for us!Imagine yourself to be the school leader. What is the one thing you would like to

change in your school and why? Record and share.