The Fisherman and the Jinnee

1. The Fisherman and the Jinnee From The Thousand and One Nights Translated by N.J Dawood

2. The Fisherman and the Jinnee • Ancient Persian and Muslim Folklore • Has story-within-a-story structure • Folktales – part of the oral tradition passed down by word of mouth for centuries before being written down. • Usually contain magical details • Usually contain a lesson about life • Usually contain characters who possess on or two main traits • Usually contain a clear separation between good and evil.

3. Reading Strategy: Summarizing • A Summary is a brief statement expressing the key details of a literary work. • To summarize: • Identify the details that are essential to your understanding of the story • Next, organize those details into a concise statement • Summarize to aid your understanding of literature.

4. Vocabulary Builder • Inverted • Blasphemous • Adjured • indignantly • Resolutely • Adj. upside down • Adj, showing disrespect toward God or religious teachings • Ordered solemnly • Adv. In a way showing righteous anger or scorn • Adv. In a determined way

5. Vocabulary Continued • Enraptured • Munificence • ominous • Adj. Completely delighted; spellbound • N. Great generosity • Adj. Hinting at bad things to come

6. Word Analysis: Latin Root - vert • The Latin root –vert- means “turn.” • Inverted – means “turned upside down.” • Using your understanding of the root word –vert-, write a brief definition of the italicized word in each of the following sentences: • We can convert this old theater into a store. • If the new system does not work, we will revert to the old one. • The plane was diverted to another airport.

7. Spelling Strategy – “f” Spelled as “ph” • The f sound is sometimes spelled ph, as in blasphemous. • More often, it is spelled f or ff: fish, staff. • Rewrite the following sentence, correcting the misspelled words in italics. • The fysician was bafled by the ffisherman’safliction.

8. Vocabulary Builder: Synonyms • Select the word that is closest in meaning to the first word: • Inverted: a) reversed b) wicked c) shy • Blasphemous: a) loud b) unwise c) sinful • Adjured: a) disliked b) commanded c) healed • Indignantly: a) angrily b) noisily c) slyly • Resolutely: a) weakly b) helpfully c) stubbornly • Enraptured: a) puzzled b) repressed c) charmed • Munificence: a) poverty b) violence c) violence • Ominous: a) shining b) threatening c) open

9. Grammar and Style Lesson • Action Verbs such as saw, thought , and went, express physical or mental action. • Linking verbs, such as was, felt, and became, express a state of being. • Linking verbs are followed by a noun or pronoun that renames the subject or by an adjective that describes it. • Some linking verbs can also function as action verbs. • If you can replace the verb with a form of be – such as am, is, are, was, were - and still express a similar meaning, the verb is a linking verb.

10. Action and Linking Verbs Action Verb Linking Verb • The Fisherman looked in the bottle • We tasted the food. • Notice how the subject takes action to perform the verb. • The jinnee looked monstrous (was) • The food tasted good. (was) • Notice how the subjects are in a state of being; they cannot perform an action. • Notice how both highlighted verbs can be replaced with the being verb “was.”

11. Action and Linking Verbs • Identify the verb in each sentence below as an actionverb or a linking verb. • The bottle appeared heavy. • The fisherman broke the seal. • Once outside, the jinnee seemed like a powerful giant. • The fisherman felt enormous fear. • The fisherman tricked the jinnee in the end.