Find the chapters in your history book that correspond to the episodes and events described in this comic. Note how the information contained in a few chapters of history has been condensed to a few pages with the help of pictures and ‘speech bubbles’.

Play and act the role of farmers who have grievances against the policies of the government. Rewrite their speech bubbles in dialogue form first.

(i) Ask one another questions about the pictures.

● Where is the fox

● How did it happen?

● What is the fox thinking?

● Who is the visitor?

● What does she want to know?

● What is the fox’s reply?

● What happens next?

● Where is the goat?

● Where is the fox now?

● What is the goat thinking?

(ii) Write the story in own words. Give it a title.

Read the following news item.

Based on this news item write a paragraph on what you think about this new method of teaching history.

Create a comic of your own using this story.

Read the first stanza and think.

(i) Is Macavity a cat really?

(ii) If not, who can Macavity be?