Learning Competencies

1. Explain the elements of short stories and

parable convey their respective themes.
2. Identify the elements present in the story and
parable.
3. Define parable and story.
4. Analyze parables and short stories as a means
of self-discovery and self-enhancement.
 Class Activity

1. How do Literary writers influence our lives and

our ways of thinking and doing things?

2. Favorite short story or parable

 Benjamin Franklin
(1706 1790)
Americas
first Self-
Made Man

Jack of all
trades,
master of
each and
mastered by
none
 Bens Early
Life
Born in Boston
One of 17 children
Left school at the
age of 10 to work
with his father
Taught himself
algebra, geometry,
natural and physical
sciences, logic,
grammar, navigation,
and French, German,
Italian, Spanish, and
Latin.
As a teenager, Benjamin
Apprenticed in his
older brothers print
shop
Wrote political
editorials under the
name Mrs. Silence
Dogood
When his brother
discovered Franklins
deception, they parted
company on poor
terms.
Already Politically Minded
Franklins
editorials were
highly opinionated
writings speaking
out against the
British government,
taxation. religion,
and any other
controversial topic
he could explore.
 When Franklin left
his brothers employ,
his brother made sure
he could not get a
job in Boston.
So at 17, with only a
few coins in his
pocket earned from
selling some of his
books, Franklins
friend Collins
booked passage for
him on a ship to New
York.
 Early Struggles
No work was
available in New
York, so Franklin
sailed to
Philadelphia.
During the trip, Ben
saved a drunk,
drowning Dutchman
and was given
Pilgrims Progress,
Franklins favorite
book.
 Upon Arriving in
Philadelphia -
Franklin had 1 Dutch
dollar and 1 copper
shilling.
His clothes, socks and a
shirt, were stuffed in his
pockets.
He bought three loaves of
bread, carrying them under
his arms, but having eaten
his fill, Benjamin gave two
of them to a woman and her
child.
By 24, he was a prosperous
merchant, printer, and
publisher of a newspaper.
 Franklins Inventions:
An open heating stove
called the Franklin
stove
Bifocal glasses
A type of harmonica
A rocking chair that
could swat flies
An odometer
Swim Fins
Daylight Savings Time
 Franklins Many
Accomplishments
First public library
First fire station
Fire insurance
Founded the
University of
Pennsylvania
Promoted paved
streets, sewer lines,
and street lighting.
 Franklins Most Noted
Discovery was -
That lightening is
an electrical
current
He invented the
lightening rod to
protect people,
buildings, and
ships from
electrocution.
In His Latter Years -
Franklin was a
popular diplomat
and spent several
years in England
representing the
colonies interests.
When war was
inevitable, he
returned to America
and helped draft the
Declaration of
Independence.
H. H. Munro (Saki)
 Saki-A Brief Biography

Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki,

was born in Burma.
Munros reputation as a writer rests on his short stories
which satirize the social conventions, cruelty and
foolishness of the Edwardian era.
Munros stories, with twist endings, are often compared
to the stories of O.Henry. However, his stories are not
innocent or sentimental, but mix wit with
outrageousness, humour with seemingly justified malice.
 Saki-A Brief Biography

18 December 1870
Akyab, British Burma
13 November 1916 (aged 45)
Beaumont-Hamel, France
 H. H. Munro
Hector Hugh Munro was born in 1870, in Akyab. He
grew up in Devon. He studied at Exmouth and
Bedford, then he had worked as an policeman and
after that he became a journalist.
Munros pseudonym is Saki. He wrote 4 books with
short stories:
Reginald
Reginald in Russia
The Chronicles of Clovis
Beasts and Super - Beasts
He died in 1916 in a war