Folktale

Jungle
Treasures
A Southeast Asian Folktale

retold by Anna Harris

illustrated by Liza Woodruff
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 STRATEGIES & SKILLS
Comprehension Vocabulary
Strategy: Make Predictions attempt, awkward,
Skill: Theme cooperation, creates,
furiously, interfere,
Vocabulary Strategy involve, timid
Antonyms
Content Standards
Social Studies
Civics
Word count: 963**

**The total word count is based on words in the running text and headings only. Numerals and words
in captions, labels, diagrams, charts, and sidebars are not included.

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 Essential Question
Why is working together a good way to solve
a problem?

Jungle
Treasures
A S
Southeast
outheast A
Asian
sian F
Folktale
olktale
retold by Anna Harris
illustrated by Liza Woodruff

Chapter 1
The People of Barat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chapter 2
Living in Darkness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 3
Very Useful Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 4
Working Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Respond to Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
PAIRED
Urban Roots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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Focus on Genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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 Chapter 1

The People of Barat

Once, on the edge of the jungle, there was a

village called Barat. The people who lived in this
village were shy and timid. They hated to travel
far from home. They always felt awkward talking
with people from other places.

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 Tall trees surrounded the village. Large orange
fruit grew on these trees. The fruit looked as if
it would be sweet and juicy. But the people of
Barat didn’t like how it tasted. It was so sour it
made their lips pucker. They named it sourfruit.

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 The villagers liked another kind of tree.
The trees they liked were sapwood trees. The
villagers used the resin from sapwood trees as a
fuel. They burned the resin in their lamps. This
meant they could sit and talk by lamplight in
the evenings. Unfortunately, sapwood trees grew
all the way over on the other side of the jungle.

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 Chapter 2

Living in Darkness
One night, the people of Barat ran out of
resin. The last of their lamps flickered and then
went out.
“What will we do now? ” one villager asked.
“One of us will have to go on a long journey
to find more sapwood trees,” another decided.
“I’ll go,” a young man volunteered.

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 After three days of walking through the
jungle, the young man arrived at a village called
Timur. What he saw there gave him a terrible
surprise. People with axes were gathered around
the largest sapwood tree. The villagers were
about to cut down the tree that produced the
most resin!
The man from Barat was alarmed. “Stop!”
he said furiously, running toward the villagers.
“What are you doing? You can’t get rid of these
wonderful trees!”

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 “These trees are useless,” said a man from
the village.
“Yes, we voted and agreed to cut them all
down,” said another.
“And you shouldn’t interfere in the affairs
of our village,” added a third.
“But the people from my village use the resin
from sapwood trees as a fuel,” said the man
from Barat. “If you cut them down, we’ll have
to sit around in darkness every night!”

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 Chapter 3

Very Useful Trees

The villagers of Timur were very surprised

by this news.
The man from Barat agreed to show the
people of Timur how to collect the resin from
sapwood trees.
The people of Timur agreed that the man
from Barat should take a Timur woman back
to his village. Then, she could see for herself
how useful sapwood trees really were.

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 The next day, the young man from
Barat and the woman from Timur set
off together. Three days later, the pair
arrived at the village of Barat. But what
the woman from Timur saw there was
a terrible shock. People with axes were
gathered around the oldest sourfruit tree.
The villagers were about to cut down the
tree that produced the most fruit!
The woman from Timur was alarmed.
“Stop!” she said furiously, running toward
the villagers. “What are you doing? You
can’t get rid of these wonderful trees!”

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 “These trees have sour fruit,” said a woman
from the village.
“It falls to the ground and rots, and then it
creates a smelly mess,” another woman added.
“So we decided to cut the trees down,” added
a third.
“But sourfruit are so useful. My people cut
the fruit up and dry it in the sun,” said the
woman from Timur. “Then we put it into our
cooking to add flavor. Sourfruit trees only
grow on this side of the jungle. If you cut
them all down, we won’t be able to cook our
tastiest dishes!”

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 Chapter 4

Working Together
That night, the woman from Timur put on a
big feast for all the people of Barat. She included
dried sourfruit in many of the dishes she cooked.
She showed the villagers of Barat how to prepare
meals using the fruit. The food was laid out on
long tables. The tables were lit with lamps fueled
by resin from sapwood trees.

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 The whole event was a big success.
“This food is delicious!” declared the man
from Barat.
“It’s so nice not to sit around in the dark,”
said the woman from Timur.
“We must attempt to talk more often,” said
the man from Barat.
“I agree!” said the woman from Timur.

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 The villagers decided they would not cut down
a single tree. The people of Barat started to put
dried sourfruit in their cooking. The people of
Timur began to burn resin in lamps at night.
In this way, the two villages worked together to
solve their problems. What were the solutions?
They traded sourfruit for resin, and vice versa!

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 Summarize Detail

What happens in the story?

Use the Theme Chart to help Detail

you write the events in order.

Detail

Theme

Text Evidence
1. This story is a folktale. What tells you this?
GENRE

2. What is the main theme of this story? THEME

3. What word on page 3 tells you what food

might taste like if it is not sweet? ANTONYMS

4. Write about the details the author uses to

describe the village of Barat. WRITE ABOUT
READING

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 Compare Texts
Read about teens working together to solve problems.

Urban Roots
What’s your favorite fruit or vegetable?
Urban Roots is a group of teenagers in
Austin, Texas, who know a lot about growing
healthy food. The group helps run a 3.5-acre
garden on the outskirts of the city. They grow
tomatoes, squash, melons, eggplants, beans,
and many other vegetables. They grow fruit
and flowers, too. Each year, they produce
about 30,000 pounds of food.
© Urban Roots

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 These Urban Roots interns are harvesting
okra to sell at the local farmers’ market.

The teens at Urban Roots are helping to

solve a problem in their community. Some
of the people who live in Austin have very
little money. In some neighborhoods, there
are not many places to buy fresh fruits and
vegetables. Urban Roots sells the fresh food
they grow at farmers’ markets. They also give
© Kelly West/Austin American Statsman

away some of the food they grow. They take

it to soup kitchens and food banks that give
food to people who need it.

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 Teamwork is
important. The
garden needs
everyone’s
cooperation to
succeed. Fun is
important, too.
Each year, there is a
Farm Fest at the garden.
Events include pepper These Urban Roots
teens are serving a
tastings and a rotten tomato
meal they prepared.
toss. Urban Roots is a great
way for teens to involve themselves
in something that is fun and useful!

Food from
Urban Roots
Soup Meals on
kitchen Wheels

Food Farmers’
bank market

Make Connections
Why do the Urban Roots teens work together to solve
problems? ESSENTIAL QUESTION
© Urban Roots

How are the people of Timur and Barat similar to or

different from the teens at Urban Roots? TEXT TO TEXT
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 Folktales Folktales are stories passed down from
person to person by word of mouth. Often, folktales
teach a lesson. A fairy tale has one author, but a
folktale does not. Sometimes, folktales also give
details about a group of people and their culture.

Read and Find Jungle Treasures is from a Southeast

Asian folktale. The story teaches that sharing
ideas and information with others can help solve
problems. The story also gives details about the
Malaysian people. In the past, they put dried asam
gelugor fruit in their cooking. They still use this
dried fruit in recipes such as curries.

Your Turn
Choose a folktale you know. Make a flow chart
that shows the main events (the most important
things that happen in the story). Using the chart
to help you, rewrite the folktale, but use all your
own words.

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 Literature Circles

Fiction

Characters
How did the villagers change from
the start to the end of the story?

Sequence of Events
What happened in Jungle Treasures?
What happened first, then, next, last?

Plot
What were the problems in the story?
How did people solve these problems?

Author’s Purpose
Why do you think the author wrote
Jungle Treasures?

Make Connections
How is this story similar to or different
from other folktales you have read?

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 Cooperation

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