1. Reading
Standard of Competence
Understand messages in short function text and short monologues/essays of recount, narrative and procedure in daily life context to get the knowledge
Basic Competence
Respond accurately, fluently and appropriately messages in short function text in daily life context and to get the knowledge.
Course Objectives
Students will be able to
Responding to the text in the narrative form correctly
Retelling to the story and identifying the communicative purpose and rhetorical moves in the text.
Read the legend.
Duty for X Aksel: Do exercise A, B and C on your note book!
SANGKURIANG
A long time ago, the ancient land of Sunda was ruled by a king and queen who had but a single daughter. Her name was Dayang Sumbi. She was beautiful and clever but also pampered and spoiled.
One day as she was weaving in her pavilion, she became moody and distracted, which caused her to keep dropping her shuttle on the floor. Once when it fell she exclaimed she would marry the one who gave it back to her. At that very moment her dog Tumang, a demigod possessing magic powers, came up to her with the shuttle in his mouth. Dayang Sumbi had to marry him.
They lived happily together, and Dayang Sumbi gave birth to a baby boy, human in appearance but endowed with his father’s magic powers. She named him Sangkuriang. As the boy grew up, he was always guarded by the faithful dog Tumang, whom he knew only as a companion and not as his father, Sangkuriang became handsome and brave.
One day his mother asked him to go hunting with the dog and bring her venison for a feast. After hunting all day without success, Sangkuriang worried about facing his mother empty-handed. Desperate, he took an arrow and shot the dog. He returned home and handed over the meat to his pleased mother. Soon after the feast, however, Dayang Sumbi questioned her son about the absence of Tumang. At first he evaded her queries but finally told her what had happened. She was horrified and struck her son so hard on the temple that he collapsed. For that, the old king banished his daughter from the court and she was made to roam around the kingdom. Sangkuriang recovered with a large scar on his temple, and he too left the court to wander about the world.
Years later, Sangkuriang met a beautiful woman and instantly fell in love with her. It was his own mother-they did not recognize each other. He proposed to her and she agreed to marry him. On the day before the wedding, as she was caressing her fiancée’s hair, Dayang Sumbi detected the scar on the temple. Horror struck her, for she was about to marry her own son, Sangkuriang. Without revealing the whole truth to him, she tried unsuccessfully to dissuade him. Desperate to avoid the marriage, she set conditions she thought impossible to meet. Sangkuriang had to make a lake that filled the whole valley and build a boat for the couple to sail in, all before dawn.
Sangkuriang started to work. His love gave him extraordinary strength, and he used his magic powers to summon the spirits to help him. With boulders and mud they dammed the river in the valley and the water rose and began to form a lake. In the early morning hours he chopped down a huge tree in the forest and began hollowing it out to make a boat. When Dayang Sumbi saw that he was about to accomplish what she has thought impossible, she called on the gods to bring the sun up early and thwart Sangkuriang.
The cock crowed, the sun rose much earlier than usual, and Sangkuriang realized he had been deceived. In a fit of fury he caused Dayang Sumbi and kicked the half-finished boat back into the forest. There it lies upside down today, forming the mountain Tangkuban Perahu (Upturned Boat). Not far away is the stump of the tree Sangkuriang had fallen, now called Bukit Tinggi. The dam Sangkuriang had built caused the valley to become a lake, where both Sangkuriang and Dayang Sumbi drowned themselves. They were never heard of again.
(Taken from All Around Bandung – Gottfrid Roelcke, Gary Crabb).
Exercise:
A. Answer the questions based on the text given!
1. What is the purpose of the text?
2. Why did Dayang Sumbi become moody and distracted when she was weaving in her pavilion?
3. Who was Sangkuriang father?
4. She was horrified and struck her son so hard on the temple that he collapsed.
What is the synonym of the underlined word?
5. What is the dominant structure of the text?
6. Why did Sangkuriang take an arrow and shot the dog?
7. How did Sangkuriang accomplish to make a lake that filled the whole valley and build a boat for the couple to sail in, all before dawn?
8. Why did Dayang Sumbi set the condition that impossible to do?
9. What is the story trying to explain?
10. Mention the moral value in this story?
B. Match the word with the meaning or synonym!
1. ancient a. wander
2. evaded b. command something to come
3. Scar c. get out of the way
4. Lake d. stretch of land between hills or mountains usually with a river flowing through it
5. Banish e. meal in public with many good things to eat and drink
6. Summon f. belonging to time long past
7. deceive g. mark remaining on the surface of skin as the result of injury
8. roam h. send away out of the country
9. feast i. play trick on something in order to mislead
10. valley j. large area of water surrounded by land
C. Choose the correct answer.
1. Who was Dayang Sumbi’s husband?
a. The King
b. Sangkuriang
c. Tumang
d. Her fiancee
e. Her father
2. Why did she marry her dog, Tumang? Because...
a. She exclaimed to marry one who gave it back her shuttle
b. It was a companion Sangkuriang
c. She fell in love with it
d. It was a demigod possessing magic powers
e. She detected the scar on the temple
3. Why did Sangkuriang kill his dog? Because....
a. It had married his mother
b. He wanted to take Tumang’s powers
c. Sangkuriang loved Dayang Sumbi
d. He took an arraw and shot the dog
e. He worried about facing his mother empty-handed
4. What did Dayang Sumbi do after she knew that Sangkuriang had killed Tumang?
a. She married Sangkuriang
b. She struck her son so hard
c. She exclaimed she would marry him
d. She asked Sangkuriang to make a lake
e. She kicked the half-finished boat back into the forest
5. Why did Dayang Sumbi avoid to marry Sangkuriang? Because.....
a. Sangkuriang had shot her dog
b. She didn’t love him
c. Dayang Sumbi elected the scar on her fiancee’s head
d. Sangkuriang was not a king
e. Sangkuriang didn’t have magic powers
6. What did Sangkuriang have to do to mary Dayang Sumbi?
a. He had to make a lake and built a boat before dawn
b. He had to make a lake and built a temple after dawn
c. He had to make a palace and built a boat before dawn
d. He had to be a king and built a boat before dawn
e. He had to make a lake and built a boat before evening
7. What did Sangkuriang do after he realized that he had been deceived?
a. He took an arrow and shot Dayang Sumbi
b. He struck Dayang Sumbi
c. He Chopped down a huge tree in the forest
d. He Cursed Dayang Sumbi and kicked the half-finished boat back into the forest.
e. He returned home and handed over the meat to his pleased mother
8. What is the generic structure of the text?
a. Orientation > Complication > Resolution > Re-Orientation
b. Orientation > Events > Re- Orientation
c. General Classification > Description
d. Identification > Description
e. Newsworthy Events > Background Events > Sources
9. Why did the sun rise much earlier than usual? Because…
a. Sangkuriang has finished his work
b. Dayang Sumbi called on the gods to bring the sun up early and thwart Sangkuriang
c. Sangkuriang knew that Dayang Sumbi was his mother
d. Sangkuriang has accomplished to make the lake.
e. Dayang Sumbi exclaimed she would marry Sangkuriang who gave the shuttle back to her
10. What condition did Dayang Sumbi set to Sangkuriang?
a. Sangkuriang would marry Dayang Sumbi before dawn
b. Sangkuriang went hunting with the dog and bring her venison for a feast.
c. Sangkuriang kicked the half-finished boat back into the forest
d. Sangkuriang canceled to marry his own mother
e. Sangkuriang had to make a lake that filled the whole valley and build a boat for the couple to sail in, all before dawn.
