Here are the meanings of the underlined words using context clues: 1. confections - sweets, desserts (context clue: listed along with cookies and cakes) 2. legumes - beans and peas (context clue: kidney beans and white beans listed as examples) 3. apex - highest point (context clue: used in the context of reaching the top of the mountain)

1. Japan
Welcome to
The Land Of The Rising Sun

2. Facts
1. It is located in the North Pacific off
the coast of Russia and the Korean
Peninsula.
2. Its population is 127 million with a
literacy rate of 99%
3. Shinto and Buddhism are the two
major religion
4. Yen is the currency
5. Tokyo

3. The Author
(27 June 1850 – 26
September 1904)
was an international
writer, known best for
his books
about Japan,
especially his
collections of
Japanese legends and
ghost stories, such
as Kwaidan: Stories
and Studies of Strange
Things and The Soul of
the Great Bell Patrick Lafcadio
Hearn
Koizumi Yakumo
(小泉八雲)

4. CHARACTERS
PROTAGONIST
• Ko- Ngai – Daughter
of Kouan-Yu and the one
who sacrificed herself.
• Kouan- Yu - a worthy
mandarin and father of
Ko- Ngai.
ANTAGONIST
• Celestial August - The
son of heaven.

5. “The Soul of the Great Bell”
by Lafcadio Hearn
SOUL OF THE GREAT BELL (2012) by II-Competence.
mp4

6. Questions
1. What was the story all about?
2. What are the different elements of the
bell?
3. Why are the elements not mixing with
each other?
4. What was the content of the letter
received by Ko-Ngai?
5. If you are in the position of Ko-Ngai, are
you going to do the same? Why?

7. READ
1. In the Tower of the Great Bell the mallet
is lifted to smite the lips
of the metal monster—the vast lips
inscribed with Buddhist texts.
2. All the little dragons on the high-tilted
eaves of the green roofs (3) shiver to the
tips of their gilded tails under that deep
wave of sound.

8. READ
3. All the green-and-gold tiles of the
temple are vibrating; the wooden
goldfish above them are writhing
against the sky.
4. Therefore, the worthy mandarin
Kouan-Yu assembled the master-molders
and the renowned bell smiths
of the empire, and all men of great
repute and cunning in foundry work.

9. Practice
Go over the following terms or expressions
taken from the text. Read them to yourself
and figure out the meaning of each italicized
word.

10. VOCABULARY
DEVELOPMENT
1. In the Tower of the Great Bell: now the
(1) mallet is lifted to (2) smite the lips
of the metal monster—the vast lips
inscribed with Buddhist texts.
(1) A mallet is _______ a hammer, an axe.
a saw
(2) To smite is to _____ hit, touch, caress

11. Answer
(1)A mallet is _______
a hammer
(2) To smite is to _____
hit

12. VOCABULARY
DEVELOPMENT
3. Therefore, the molds had to be once
more prepared, and the fires (3) rekindled,
and the metal remelted, and all the work
tediously and (4) toilsomely repeated.
(3)rekindled means _____ lighted again,
set on fire again, stopped the fire
(4) toilsomely means _____ with
difficulty, lightly, unmindfully

13. Answer
(3)rekindled means _____
lighted again
(4) toilsomely means _____
with difficulty

14. QUESTION
1 How do you know the meaning of the
unfamiliar words?
2. Are there words inside the sentence that
help you identify the meaning?
3. What do you call those word(s) in a
sentence that help you identify the
meaning of unfamiliar words?

15. CONTEXT CLUES
- are word(s) inside the
sentence that help you identify the
meaning of unfamiliar words.

16. Exercise
1. The long hike was too arduous. I had to
stop and catch my breath before going on.
A. hardly
B. climb
C. art
D. difficult

17. Exercise
2. My older brother told me my 5th grade
teacher, Ms. Stone, was a tyrant.
However, I think she’s nice. Which of the
following is the meaning of tyrant as it is
used in this sentence?
A. strict ruler
B. teacher
C. terrible
D. helper

18. Exercise
3.Sally was very gregarious. She always
smiled and talked to everyone. No wonder
she was so popular.
A. stuck-up
B. outgoing
C. sad
D. scared

19. Exercise
4. Michael loved to clean so his room was
always immaculate.
A. clean and tidy
B. filthy and dirty
C. large and empty
D. small and cluttered

20. Exercise
5. The thought of eating bugs is appalling to
most people.
A. enjoyable
B. difficult
C. disgusting
D. different

21. Answer
1. The long hike was too arduous. I had to
stop and catch my breath before going on.
A. hardly
B. climb
C. art
D. difficult

22. Answer
2. My older brother told me my 5th grade
teacher, Ms. Stone, was a tyrant.
However, I think she’s nice. Which of the
following is the meaning of tyrant as it is
used in this sentence?
A. strict ruler
B. teacher
C. terrible
D. helper

23. Answer
3.Sally was very gregarious. She always
smiled and talked to everyone. No wonder
she was so popular.
A. stuck-up
B. outgoing
C. sad
D. scared

24. Answer
4. Michael loved to clean so his room was
always immaculate.
A. clean and tidy
B. filthy and dirty
C. large and empty
D. small and cluttered

25. Answer
5. The thought of eating bugs is appalling to
most people.
A. enjoyable
B. difficult
C. disgusting
D. different

26. Assignment
Find the meaning of the underlined
words.
1.There were several confections on the
table including chocolate chip cookies and
cakes.
2.There are many kinds of legumes you can
use to make soup such as kidney beans
and white beans.
3.The mountain climber finally reached
the apex of the mountain.