Kipling's Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling

Print and duplicate the Fact or Personification? chart for student use in Activity 4.PBS: The Story of India for photographs and background on this country which is the setting of the story National Geographic offers resources to learn about the mongoose and cobra characterized in the story:.The Timeline of British India available via the EDSITEment-reviewed resource The Victorian Web.Review and bookmark the other online resources used in this lesson:.Personification: giving an animal or object human qualities.Fiction: people, places, things, or events that are invented or 'made-up'.Fact: a piece of information that can be proved.Setting: the time and place in which the events of the story happen.Reference EDSITEment's Literary Glossary. Review as necessary the definitions used in the lessons.Victorian Web also contains background on the life and works of Rudyard Kipling.Queen Victoria's was an age of invention, industrial expansion, and the indomitable imperialism that gave rise to the quotation, 'The sun never sets on the British Empire.' It was also a time of cultural flowering: along with Rudyard Kipling, the era welcomed such literary luminaries as Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, the Bronte sisters, and Alfred Lord Tennyson.' 'The Victorian Era in England began in 1819 when Queen Victoria was born, and ended with her death in 1901 (she was crowned in 1837). An online Introduction to Victorian England is available from The University of Wisconsin Department of English. Additional resources to learn about aspects of the Victorian Age can be found at Victorian Web. General highlights of the era include:.

Though he received many honors and awards before his death in 1936, he refused all but the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature, which he was the first Englishman to receive.' By 1889, his work had become so popular in Great Britain that he was considered the literary heir of Charles Dickens, though the body of Kipling's works reflected the conflicts and tensions inherent in colonialist instead of domestic social and political policies. After receiving his education in England, he returned to India and worked as a journalist, composing and publishing short stories and poetry in his spare time. 'Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, in 1865. Review and bookmark (or print, if needed) online background information about Rudyard Kipling, available from the Nobel E-Museum, a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed Academy of American Poets.Review, if necessary, Lesson Two of this two-part lesson plan: Rudyard Kipling's 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi': Mixing Words and Pictures. The Jungle Book including 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' with Drake’s original illustrations is available as an e-text through from The University of Adelaide Library

Kipling's Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling