Sangkuriang Iva

Chapter 7

Sangkuriang

Part 1

Learning Objectives:

- We tell events or legends in the past, called narrative text

- We read and listen to folktale “Sangkuriang”

- We learn the moral lesson of the story "Sangkuriang"

Sample text of Sangkuriang

Try to read the text aloud.

Narrative text generally have three main structures:

1) Orientation (the background of the story)

2) Complication (when problems arise in the story)

3) Resolution (the end of the story or a solution to the problem that occurs) 

After reading the sangkuriang folklore, let's study the intrinsic elements:

In narrative text there are intrinsic elements. Kinds of intrinsic elements as follows:

- Theme

- Setting

- Character

- Plot

- Point of view

- Moral lesson/message

Let’s watch this video first to listen to Sangkuriang's story.

Go to YouTube page and type: “Folklore for Kids - Sangkuriang - English Version”.

Let’s try and practice!

Read and understand the text entitled sangkuriang, then choose the best answer according to the text.

Multiple Choice

1. Where did the Sangkuriang story come from?

• A. East Java

• B. West Java

• C. Central Java

• D. North Java

Multiple Choice

2. Who is the main character of the story?

• A. Tumang

• B. Sangkuriang

• C. Dayang Sumbi

• D. Sangkuriang’s mother

Multiple Choice

3. Based on the story, who is Sangkuriang's mother?

• A. Dayang Sumbi

• B. Na­wang Wulan

• C. Roro Jonggrang

• D. Mbok Randa

Multiple Choice

4. According to the text, what did Dayang Sumbi look like?

Once upon a time in West Java, Indonesia, lived a princess named Dayang sumbi. Dayang Sumbi was a beautiful and kind hearted princess, but sometimes she was very lazy. Her hobby was weaving cloth.

• A. She liked weaving clothers

• B. She looked for the heart of a deer

• C. She was beautiful

• D. She was looking at her fallen tool

Multiple Choice

5. What made Dayang Sumbi stay young?

He met a beautiful young woman there and he fell in love with her at the first sight. It was Dayang Sumbi! She never got older because she had been granted eternal youth by the gods.

• A. She set up conditions in doing things

• B. She married a dog

• C. She knew how to take care her body

• D. God gave her an eternal youth

Multiple Choice

6. “He happily brought her the tool to her”

The underlined word refers to …

A male creature came, but it was a dog. His name was Tumang. He happily brought her the tool to her. Dayang Sumbi was very surprised but she kept her promise.

• A. Sangkuriang

• B. Tumang

• C. Dayang Sumbi

• D. a witch

Multiple Choice

7. What happened to Sangkuriang after he killed Tumang?

He did not want to disappoint his mother and was thinking herd how to bring home a deer’s heart. Suddenly he had a very bad idea. He killed Tumang! Then he brought his heart home and gave it to Dayang Sumbi.

• A. Sangkuriang cried because he killed Tumang

• B. Sangkuriang left Tumang alone in the woods

• C. Sangkuriang and Tumang hunting in the woods

• D. Sangkuriang gave Tumang's heart to Dayang Sumbi

Multiple Choice

8. According to the text, why did Dayang Sumbi refuse sangkuriang proposal? Because …

After along time Sangkuriang came back to the jungle where his mother lived. She looked younger than her age, so Sangkuriang fell in love with her. “Will you marry me?’’ one day he asked her. But Dayang Sumbi refused because she recognized that he was her son.

• A. Sangkuriang was ungly

• B. Sangkuriang was not rich

• C. She recognized that he was her son

• D. She had a husband

Multiple Choice

9. What happened to Sangkuriang at the end of the story?

Sangkuriang realized that Dayang Sumbi had cheated him. He got very angry and he kicked the boat upside down. It gradually became a mountain ant it is known as Mt. Tangkuban Perahu.

• A. he lives happily with Dayang Sumbi

• B. he became a kind person

• C. he accepted Dayang Sumbi's decision

• D. he kicked the boat upside down

Multiple Choice

10. What moral values can we learn from Sangkuriang's story?

• A. Just do what we have planned

• B. We must not be selfish and stubborn in doing an action

• C. Never be reluctant to do good things

• D. Do not make a promise to easily