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    The Day The Dancers Came by Bienvenido Santos

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    The document provides instructions for three writing assignments: 1. Describe your favorite story and why you like it, then retell it from the perspective of the author to try to persuade others to read it. 2. Write a single paragraph of no more than 10 sentences about an experience spending at least 3 days away from home and family, whether you enjoyed it, and if you'd want to do it again. 3. Read a short story called "The Day the Dancers Came" and answer 5 questions about characters, themes and symbols in the story. Key words are defined to aid understanding of the story.

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    The Day The Dancers Came by Bienvenido Santos

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    The document provides instructions for three writing assignments: 1. Describe your favorite story and why you like it, then retell it from the perspective of the author to try to persuade others to read it. 2. Write a single paragraph of no more than 10 sentences about an experience spending at least 3 days away from home and family, whether you enjoyed it, and if you'd want to do it again. 3. Read a short story called "The Day the Dancers Came" and answer 5 questions about characters, themes and symbols in the story. Key words are defined to aid understanding of the story.

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    The Day the Dancers Came by Bienvenido Santos

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    The document provides instructions for three writing assignments: 1. Describe your favorite story and why you like it, then retell it from the perspective of the author to try to persuade others to read it. 2. Write a single paragraph of no more than 10 sentences about an experience spending at least 3 days away from home and family, whether you enjoyed it, and if you'd want to do it again. 3. Read a short story called "The Day the Dancers Came" and answer 5 questions about characters, themes and symbols in the story. Key words are defined to aid understanding of the story.

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    The Day The Dancers Came by Bienvenido Santos

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    The document provides instructions for three writing assignments: 1. Describe your favorite story and why you like it, then retell it from the perspective of the author to try to persuade others to read it. 2. Write a single paragraph of no more than 10 sentences about an experience spending at least 3 days away from home and family, whether you enjoyed it, and if you'd want to do it again. 3. Read a short story called "The Day the Dancers Came" and answer 5 questions about characters, themes and symbols in the story. Key words are defined to aid understanding of the story.

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    1. What is your favorite story? List at least three (3) why you consider that story your favorite.

    Think of how you can persuade your classmate to read and, at the very least, like it as well.
    Retell it as if you are the author him/herself. Let your imagination guide you in your retelling;
    unleash your inner bard and let your actions supplement the spoken word.

    2. Have your ever spent a significant amount of time – say, at least 3 days – away both your home
    and those you consider a family? What did you do during the experience? Did you enjoy it? Did
    you wish you could stay longer? Or did you find yourself wishing you could go back home, or
    that your family can be you at that very moment? If you’ve haven’t experienced leaving home
    and family, would you do so, if given a chance? Write about your thoughts and experience in a
    single paragraph of no more than 10 sentences.

    Directions: Before reading the story, find out what the following words mean to help you understand
    the story:

    a. Tiniaflava
    b. Tatching
    c. Muchacho
    d. Bejo
    e. Leprosy
    f. Kundiman

    The Day the Dancers Came by Bienvenido Santos

    Link: https://gissellemildredpaulo.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/the-day-the-dancers-came-by-
    bienvenido-santos/

    3. A. Why are Fil and Tony in Chicago? Why can’t they just go back to the Philippines?
    B. Compare the contrast Fil and Tony. Why is Fil excited to meet the dancers from the
    Philippines? Is Tony excited as Fil? How do their views on the performer’s arrival in Chicago
    reflect their personalities as Filipino living for such as long time in the United States?
    C. Fil can associate with the symbol of fetus, as evidence by the following quotation in the story:
    Fil once” …. Took charge of the row of bottles on the shelf, each bottle containing a stage of the
    human embryo in preservatives, from the lizard-like fetus of a few days, through the newly born
    infant, with its position unchanged, cold and cowering and afraid. He had nightmares through
    the years of himself inside the bottle.” What is the significance of the fetus in symbolizing Fil’s
    situation in Chicago?
    D. why do dancers avoid Fil when he approaches them?
    E. What does the magic sounds mirror represents?

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