Heba Jaser

Grade 8 National

The Girl Who

Married The Moon 3
The Girl Who Married the Moon
P 398-411

Objectives:
To revise the concept of personification
and apply it on the lesson.
To relate the myth to the events in nature.
To relate the big question to our lives.
• Please make sure you
saw the video on
YouTube, it will
facilitate your
understanding to a
great extent.

• For those who didn’t:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF
BQPlREkMc
 Personification in the story

The most obvious

example of
personification in the
story is the moon
being personified
into a man, actually
a suitor !
 Nature and the Myth
• What event in nature does this myth (The
Girl Who Married the Moon) explain?

• The changing phases of the moon

How can I relate that to myself?
To check your understanding

Remember that humans also live certain

phases throughout their life cycle, just
like the moon, and many other creatures.
 Page 406
• Who do you think were the people that the
moon’s wife was trying to talk to? The
ones with one eye?

• Yes, they were stars

 P 407
• Why was the full moon mask missing?
The husband was wearing it that night.

• Did things change after the moon knew

about what his wife did?
Yes, they started sharing the duty
• What do you think of the moon’s attitude?
 Vocabulary check

Read the words in the margins of the

story, understand their meanings and try
to fill them in the following blanks
 Cousins, elders, tattoos, kayak, patient, bored,
wander, poked, suspicious, cycle, duty, quarter

1. You may feel ______________ during the lockdown, but its

better to be safe than sorry. It is totally meaningless to
_____________ in the streets as this may lead to your
infection, so please be _________!

2. Coronavirus is known to influence _________ more than

children, it is our _______________ to protect them by being
away from them.

3. Indian ladies are known to have a red dot as a face _____

to show that they are married.
 Cousins, elders, tattoos, kayaks, patient, bored,
wander, poked, suspicious, cycle, duty, quarter

4. When the teacher was not paying attention, I _____ my

classmate, so he made a sound that caused the teacher to be
_________ of our behaviour.

5. The four seasons revolve in a ____________ that they

change every ____________ of the year, which means every
fthree months.

6. I have relatives who live near Nile river in Egypt, so my two

________________ always go on adventures on their
_______________.
 Heba Jaser
Grade 8 National

Answer key Will be

sent tomorrow