Transcript Wind, Poetry 3rd Grade - Floyd County Schools, VA

Click for
Teacher
Pages
Part 2
Compare and Contrast
By Mary Ruebusch
McCurdy School
Teacher Page
Objective: The learner will compare
2 pieces of literature.
Activity: Students will make a chart
comparing information from the
poem “Who Has Seen the Wind” and
the fable “The Wind and the Sun”.
Teacher Page
Procedure:
1. Read the poem and fable to the
class. (If you want to use the
overhead, copy the following
slides and have a transparency made
in advance for each.)
2. Answer questions in student logs.
Teacher Page
Procedure:
1. The students will read and complete
activities on both “The Wind and the
Sun” and “Who Has Seen the Wind.”
2. The students will chart comparisons
between the 2 pieces.
3. The students will write a paragraph
explaining similarities and differences.
Who Has Seen the Wind?
By Christina Rosetti
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the leaves bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
The Wind and the Sun
a Fable by Aesop
Once upon a time when everything could talk, the Wind and the Sun fell into an
argument as to which was the stronger.
Cape= a coat
Finally, they decided to put the matter to a test; they would see which one could make a certain
man, who was walking along the road, throw off his cape.
without
arms
The Wind tried first. He blew and he blew and he blew. The harder and colder he blew,
the tighter the traveler wrapped his cape about him. The Wind finally gave up and told the Sun to try.
The Sun began to smile and it grew warmer and warmer. The traveler was comfortable once more.
The Sun shone brighter and brighter.
The man grew so hot, the sweat poured out on his face. He became weary. Seating himself on a stone,
he quickly threw his cape to the ground.
Who Has Seen the Wind?
By Christina Rosetti
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the leaves bow down their
heads,
The wind is passing by.
After reading the fable
“The Wind and The Sun”
compare it to the poem
“Who Has Seen the Wind?”
Make a chart like the one
on the next page.
Give 2 examples of how the
wind is described in each
piece.
Poem
Fable
1.
1.
2.
2.
Answers on the next slide
Fable
Poem
1. The wind is like
1. It makes the
2. The wind blew
2. The wind can
a person.
and blew.
leaves move.
not be seen.
Compare and contrast the
fable and the poem. How
are they alike? How are
they different?
Make a Venn diagram together
on the board or overhead. Then
students can write a paragraph.
Click for example.
In the fable, the wind
was like an angry person. He
blew to make the man take
off his coat. In the poem
the wind was an object of
nature, not like a person. In
both, the wind was invisible
to humans.
The end