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8. Body Paragraph Acceleration

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The Lion’s Share 
retold by Victoria Parker

   A lion once went hunting with a fox, a jackal, and a wolf. The four hunters prowled and lurked and tracked until at last they came upon a huge stag in the depths of the forest. Working together, they took the stag totally unaware and claimed its life.  

jackal= a wild member of the dog family

stag= a male deer

   The hunters stood triumphant as the stag lay before them. But then they all began to wonder how they should share out their catch.  

    Just as an argument was about to break out, the lion threw back his head and gave a mighty roar. “Divide this stag up into quarters right NOW!” he bellowed, and the other animals leapt to it.  

    When it was done, the lion snarled at the fox, the jackal and the wolf, who stood sulkily before him. “ The first quarter is for me,” he declared, “because I am King of the Beasts.”  

   The fox, the jackal, and the wolf looked at each other and shrugged—that was fair enough, they thought. But then the lion went on . . . “The second quarter is mine too, as I am the one sorting out the shares.”  

    “But—”  

    “Hang on a minute—”  

    “Rubbish!” The fox, the jackal, and the wolf began to grumble, but the lion took no notice and carried on.

    “The third share should be mine because of the part I played in hunting the stag. As for the fourth quarter, well, I should like to see which of you will dare to lay a paw upon it.” And the lion bared his teeth and flexed his sharp claws.  

    The three other hunters slunk away into the shadows with their tails between their legs.

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Question 1

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In “The Lion’s Share” and “The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet,” the main characters develop solutions to their problems. What similar problem do the main characters share? How do the main characters solve this problem? Use details from both stories to support your response. 

In your response, be sure to 
-identify the similar problem the main characters share in both stories 
-explain how the main characters solve this problem 
-use details from both stories to support your response

     "The Lion's Share" and "The Bees and Wasps", and the Hornet" both share some similarities between both of their problems and both solved their problems a little differently than the other. They have their own ways of doing things that we are going to find out.
      The problems in "The Lion's Share" and "The Bees and Wasps" both have to do with a problem of sharing some sort of food. To support my claim, according to the text "The Lion's Share" it says "The hunters stood triumphant as the stag lay before them. But then they all began to wonder how they should share out their catch." This piece of evidence shows that they were struggling to find a way to share their prey. Another way to support my claim, in the text "The Bees and Wasps, and the Hotney" it says "A store of honey had been found in a hollow tree, and the Wasps declared positively that it belonged to them. The Bees were just as sure that the treasure was theirs." In my opinion this shows that an argument was going to erupt between both sides. So in total both texts had argument between different sides but only one came out victorious.
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     In total the passages had similar problems that came into different solutions that the characters came up with to solve their problems. One used force to solve their problems. Which was the Lion who wanted the stag to himself. The other one got the honey fair and square. Which was the Bees beating the Wasps in their travel.

Question 2

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       In "The Lion's Share" and "The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet," the main characters have similar problems and come up with a way to find solutions. In either story, the problem is focused on who the food belongs to. Both stories tells us how the characters get to a solution differently, but in each story only one group or character gets the resource in the end.
       For example, in The Lion's share they are fighting over who gets the meat, "The hunters stood triumphant as the stag lay before them. But then they all began to wonder how they should share out their catch." This shows that they think they will share the catch, but later in the rest of the story they lion has other things in mind. "Divide this stag up into quarters right NOW!" he bellowed, and the other animals leapt to it..." When they are dividing the stag into four parts it seems like each hunter will get a part. But then the lion says, "the third share should be mine because of the part I played in hunting the stag. As for the fourth quarter, well, I should like to see which of you will dare to lay a paw upon it." And the lion bared his teeth and flexed his sharp claws." And in "The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet" the conflict is "the Wasps declared positively that it belonged to them. The Bees were just as sure that the treasure was theirs." And the two groups began to argue about who should have the honey.
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     In conclusion, "The Lion's Share" and "The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet," the main characters have similar problems and the solutions in each story tells us one group gets the resources and the other group doesn't.