Description: explain the theme of the story; • infer that no work is below one’s dignity; The Shoeshine Notes 116 English Secondary Course • correlate the role of cooperation, team work and interdependence to success; • recognise a positive attitude and creative thinking as characteristics of a successful person; • develop the quality of taking initiative and adapting to the unforeseen situations; • suggest an appropriate path after considering different consequences; suggest why ego hassles and status consciousness would not lead to success and happiness; • discuss the role of communication as an effective tool to convince others; • discriminate between a subordinate clause and a principal clause, and identify their functions, and • enrich vocabulary.