The Twelve Months
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The Twelve Months 4
retold by Helen Holwill
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Holwill, Helen
The twelve months / retold by Helen Holwill ; illustrated by Sidney Meireles, Giz de Cera. -1. ed. -- São Paulo : FTD, 2016.
ISBN 978-85-96-00519-7 (aluno)
ISBN 978-85-96-00698-9 (professor)
1. Literatura infantojuvenil I. Meireles, Sidney. II. Giz de Cera. III. Título.
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A year has four parts, or seasons. Put the letters in the correct order. Then write the months for each season.
ignprs = spring
Months:
Personal answers.
lafl = fall
Months:
mremsu = summer
Months:
reitwn = winter
Months:
A year has twelve months. Write the months in the correct order.
June April December January July November May
February March August October September
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September,
October, November, December
BEFORE READING
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Three people live in this small house in the country: an old woman and two girls. One girl, Rozalina, is the s daughter. The old woman loves Rozalina and she gives her good food and beautiful dresses. The other girl, Alena, is the old woman t very nice to her. Alena has only old dresses and she eats bad food.
The old woman and Rozalina don house. Alena always cooks and cleans. She goes out of the cottage to get water and wood for the fire.
Alena
Alena thinks about her night
old woman ’ ’ s stepdaughter. The old woman isn ’ ’ t help in the ’ s mother is dead, but thinks and day. She works a lot in the house and garden and she ’ s very sad.
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It ’ s winter now, and it the month of January. It and there on the trees. One afternoon the old woman opens the door. She sees that there bad snowstorm. She says to Alena: forest and get some violets for Rozalina. It her birthday today.
But it s January, says Alena. t go into the forest. s too cold and the storm ’ s very bad. And there are no violets now. ” It ’ violets now. ’ s ’ s very cold ’ s a lot of snow ’ s a bad snowstorm. “ Go into the ’ s her birthday today. ” ’ ” “ I can ’ “
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Alena ’ s very worried. It ’ s snowing and she knows that there are no violets in the forest in the winter. Violets come out in March – in two months ’ time, not now.
“ Go, ” says Rozalina. “ And don ’ t come home without violets! ” “ Yes! Go now! ” says the stepmother.
Alena ’ s very sad and she starts to cry. The forest is a dark and dangerous place in winter.
She puts on her old jacket, boots, hat, and gloves. She goes out of the house and into the snowstorm.
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The snow is very bad but Alena walks in the forest. She can ’ t see very well. There ’ s too much snow and it ’ s dark.
Now Alena ’ s in the forest. She tired, scared, and unhappy. She doesn ’ t know where she is, but she knows that there are no violets here in January. She stops and sits down on a dead tree. Her stepsister and stepmother don ’ t love her. She starts to cry again.
What can she do? It ’ s too cold and dark in the forest and she ’ s freezing! But she can ’ t go home without violets.
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Then Alena looks into the forest and sees a light. The light in the trees is very small, but Alena ’ s very happy now. Is there someone there to help her?
Her knees are under the snow now, and she ’ s tired, but she stands up. “ I ’ m going to the light, ” she says. She starts to walk. There ’ s a lot of snow and she climbs over dead trees.
Now the light is big and she can see that it ’ s a fire. Are there people next to the fire? Can they help her?
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Alena is near the fire now. She can see that there are people sitting by the fire. She counts them – there are twelve men and boys. They are wearing beautiful clothes of green, silver, blue, and gold.
Three of them are very old, three are middle-aged, three are young men, and the last three are boys. The boys are sitting near the fire, and the older men are sitting near the trees.
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One old man turns and sees the little girl in the trees. He ’ s very old and tall, with a long beard. The man stands up.
Alena is scared and wants to run home, but she can ’ t move.
“ Where are you from? What do you want? ” he asks her.
“ I ’ m looking for violets. ”
The old man is very surprised and says: “ Violets? In January? ”
“ Yes, ” Alena tells him. “ It ’ s my stepsister ’ s birthday today, and my stepmother wants me to get violets for her. I can ’ t go home without them! ”
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Now all the men and boys are looking at the little girl. The tall old man says to Alena: “ But there are no violets in the forest now; they come out in March, not January! ”
“ I know that, ” says Alena and she starts to cry.
“ What ’ s the matter? ” asks the old man.
Alena says: “ I ’ m too scared to go home without the violets. Can I wait for the violets with you, here in the freezing snow? ”
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Then a young boy stands up and walks to the old man. The boy is wearing beautiful green clothes.
“ Brother January, ” says the boy, “ let me come in your place for an hour. ”
Old man January looks at him and says:
“ No. March can ’ t come before February. ”
“ It ’ s OK, ” says another old man. “ I am happy for March to go in your place for an hour. We all know this little girl. We see her getting water for her stepmother, and she ’ s in the forest getting wood for the fire every day. She ’ s one of us and I want to help her. ”
“ Are you sure, February? ” asks old January.
“ Yes, ” says the other old man.
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Old January holds up his ice ax and says to everybody: “ It ’ s the month of January. It ’ s cold and freezing! It ’ s snowing! ” It ’ s very quiet in the forest now. It feels very cold and it starts to snow. Then old January gives the ice ax to his brother, old February.
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Now you come in my place, ” he says to February.
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Old man February takes the ax and says to everybody:
“ Now it ’ s the month of February. It ’ s really stormy! It ’ s very windy! ”
Then the wind comes. It ’ s windy and stormy and the branches of the trees are moving.
Then old February gives the ax to his young brother, March. But Alena sees that the ax is not an ax now! It ’ s a branch with young leaves on it.
“ Now you come in my place, ” says February to his little brother March.
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Now March is holding the branch up in his hand. He looks happy and says: “ It ’ s the month of March. Goodbye snow! Goodbye wind! It ’ s not cold now. Come out birds and rabbits! Come out violets! ”
Alena hears the birds starting to sing. She sees rabbits in the forest and the trees are now green.Where ’ s the snow? Where ’ s the wind? It ’ s not cold now. Alena ’ s very surprised and she claps her hands happily.
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This traditional Russian story tells us about Alina, who lives with her stepmother and stepsister in the forest. One day in winter, her stepmother sends Alina out to find flowers in the snow. Alina thinks that this is impossible and dangerous, but help comes from a surprising place.
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