This is a scary movie, but this scene is
great. It shows a child that was separated from society and spends several
years alone in the jungle.
I. Discuss with a partner:
1) What is your earliest memory? How old were you?
2) Do you remember your first school? What do you remember?
3) How would you think someone's life would be if he/she were separated from society at his/her very early years?
4) Could this person be reintegrated to society? What difficulties would they face?
5) Have you heard of the stories of Mowgli and Romulus & Reno*, who were raised by wolves? What do you know about them?
* In ancient mythology, Romulus and Remus were brothers who were raised by wolves and went on to become the founders of Rome. In Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Mowgli is a boy who lives in the wild and behaves like one of the animals. He is stronger and lives by a higher moral code than most human children.
II. Read the definition of Feral Children below and then discuss the questions:
A feral child (also,
colloquially, wild child) is a child who has lived
isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has no (or little)
experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and crucially, of human
language. Some feral children have been confined by people (usually their
own parents); in some cases this abandonment was due to the parents’
rejection of a child’s severe intellectual or physical impairment. Feral
children may have experienced severe trauma before being abandoned
or running away. Feral children are sometimes the subjects of folklore and
legends, typically portrayed as having been brought up by animals.
Scientific Interest in Feral Children:
Feral children provide scientists an interesting view of humanity that
no other person could provide. Feral children are devoid of acculturation, meaning they lack the basic social skills and
communication skills that are naturally developed in a healthy child when they
are surrounded by other people. More than anything else, however, feral
children have changed the way scientists look at human language. Having never been exposed to human language, feral children do not
speak. In fact, they have a severely impaired ability to learn language
and inter human communication. This supports a hypothesis known
as the Critical Period Theory. This hypothesis states that first language
acquisition can only occur during a critical development period, when children
are very young.
Taken from the
wonderful: http://www.learnstuff.com/feral-children/
III. Share what
you read, using your own words, and say whether you agree or disagree with the
passage.
IV. Watch the segment and discuss the questions that follow:
1. What happened
to the children?
2. Which of the
two girls are considered feral children?
3. Describe the
younger sister's behavior.
4. Describe the
older sister's behavior.
5. How different
are they from each other? And what about the rest of the girls of their
own age?
6. Do you think
they will ever be "normal" again? Explain it.
7. What should
their caretakers do to make them behave more appropriately?
V. Web Search:
Visit the site
below and choose one of the feral children's real stories and then report
it to a partner. Explain why you chose that particular feral child.
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