![]() ![]() Have your students explore The Timeline of British India available via the EDSITEment reviewed resource The Victorian Web to discover the name of the first British queen who was also the formal Empress of India (Queen Victoria) and the year in which she received the title (1876). Since Segowlee antonment was a British military base in northern India, the story must take place during a time when the British had military stations in India, when India was a British colony. Have them locate northern India on National Geographic XPeditions's clickable online map or a classroom globe, and explain that Segowlee is located between the cities of Varanasi and Calcutta.Įxplain to your students that while the author does not directly state in what year the story takes place, he does tell the reader indirectly when the events happen. Tell your students (or ask them, if they have the appropriate historical background knowledge) that Segowlee cantonment was a British military base in northern India (Bihar province). Have your students identify where the story takes place: the big bungalow in Segowlee (Sagauli) cantonment. He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits." Darzee, the tailor-bird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the muskrat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting. "This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bathrooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. Then read aloud with your students or have your students read the opening paragraph of the story: Tell them it comes from a collection of short stories called The Jungle Book and have them predict what the story might be about.Īs necessary, have your students define a story's setting as the time and place in which the events of a story happen. To begin the lesson, share with your students the story's author and title.
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