ACTIVITY:
1. Read the following article and answer the questions. Send the questions and the answers to the E-mail: straightrules@gmail.com Please support all your answers with complete answers.
1. What does the Red rose look like?
2. Why does the Red rose think, "I am the most beutiful?"
3. The Red rose was a selfish Flower. If so why yes or why not? Support your answer.
4. How was Rose´s actitude to the Pine tree?
5. What did the Red rose think about the cactus?
6. How was the cactus´ actitude to the Red rose?
7. When spring arrived, Why did the Red rose began to wilt?
8. According to the Red rose:
a-) What did beauty mean at the beginning and at the end?
b-) Why and how did the Red rose change its mind at the end?
9. What was the lesson that the Red rose leaned at the end?
10. What does the title "The Red Proud Rose" mean to you?
2. Post a personal comment here using at least 100 words, bearing in mind the moral of the Red proud Rose.
One beautiful spring day a red rose blossomed in a forest. many kinds of trees and flowers grew there. As the rose looked around, a pine tree nearby said, "what a beautiful flower. I wish i was that lovely". another tree said. "Dear pine, do not be sad, we can not have everyting."
The rose turned its head and remarked, "it seems that I am the most beautiful plant in the forest." A sunflower raised its yellow head and asked. "Why do you say that? in this forest there are many beautiful plants, you are just one of them." the red rose replied, "I see everyone looking at me and admiring me." Then the rose looked at the cactus and said, "look at that ugly plant full of thorns! The pine tree said, "Red rose what kind of talk is this? who can say what beauty is? you have the thorns too."
The proud Red rose looked angrily at the pine and said, "I thought you had good taste! you do not what beauty is at all. You can not compare my thorns to that of the cactus."
"What a proud flower," thought the trees.
The rose tried to move its roots away from the cactus but it could not move. As the days passed, the Red rose would look at the cactus and say insulting things, like; this plant is useless? how sorry I am to be his neighbor.
The cactus never got upset and he even tried to advise the rose, saying, "God did not create any form of life without a porpuse."
Spring passed, and the weather became very warm. Life became difficult in the forest, as the plants and animals needed water and no rain fell. The Red rose Began to wilt. one day the rose saw sparrows stick their beaks into the cactus and then fly away, refreshed. This was puzzling, and the red rose asked the pine tree what the birds were doing. the pine tree explained that the birds got water from the cactus. "Does it not hurt when they make holes? asked the Red rose.
Yes, but the cactus does not like to see any bird suffer, "replied the pine tree"
The Red rose opened its eyes in wonder and said. "The cactus has water?"
"Yes, you can also drink from it. The sparrow can bring water to you if you ask the cactus for help."
The red rose felt too ashamed of its past words and behavior to ask for water from the cactus, but then it finally did ask the cactus for help. The cactus kindly agree and the birds filled their beaks with water and watered the rose´s roots. Thus the Red rose learned a lesson and never judge anyone by their appearance again.
