T-Chart: Comparing Two Texts or Works
Name: ______________________________________________________________________
Date: ______________________________
T-Chart: Comparing Two Texts or Works I can compare two different works about a similar theme, topic, or idea theme / topic / idea
The common _________________ is ____________________________________________________________ Work #1:
Work #2:
Evidence
Evidence
Analysis
Analysis
Evidence
Evidence
Analysis
Analysis
Both works are similar in that _______________________________________________________________________. Work #1
One difference is that in ___________, ________________________________________________________________. Work #2
However, in _____________, ________________________________________________________________________. Find more resources at https://goalbookapp.com
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Name: ______________________________________________________________________
T-Chart: Comparing Two Texts or Works
Date: ______________________________
I can compare two different works about a similar theme, topic, or idea theme / topic / idea
theme about unexpected friendship The common _________________ is ____________________________________________________________. Work #1: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Evidence
“… she was one of the Aleuts that killed my people.”
Work #2:
Evidence
This shows that Karana thought that the girl was an enemy at first. Analysis
Evidence
The Birchbark House
“ … and couldn't ever really make things right between them. ” Maggie feels that she did not get along with Wanda, the Polish girl.
Analysis
“The spear was in my hand, but I held up the skirt so the sunlight could shine on all of it.”
Evidence
Karana started to feel friendship to the new girl and showed her dress to her. Analysis
“ ‘What did I say!’ said Peggy. ‘She must have really liked us anyway’ ” Maggie learns that Wanda was really kind to her and drew pictures of her and Peggy.
Analysis
Both works are similar in that _______________________________________________________________________. both girls are friends with another girl who is very different from them. Work #1
One difference is that in __________, _________________________________________________________________. Karana is making a friend with someone who killed her people Island Work #2
Birchbark Maggie is friends with someone she did not treat well. However, in ___________, __________________________________________________________________________. Find more resources at https://goalbookapp.com
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Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
My spear stood beside the mouth of the cave within easy reach. The girl was not more than ten paces from me and with one movement I could have picked up the spear and thrown it. Why I did not throw the spear, I do not know, for she was one of the Aleuts who had killed my people on the beach of Coral Cove. She said something and Rontu left the mouth of the cave and walked slowly toward her. The hair raised on his neck, but then he walked to where she stood and let her touch him. The girl looked at me and made a motion with her hands which I took to mean that Rontu was hers. "No," I cried and shook my head.
I picked up my spear. She started to turn and I thought that she was going to flee back through the brush. She made another motion which I took to mean that Rontu was now mine. I did not believe her. I held the spear over my shoulder, ready to throw."Tutok," she said, pointing to herself. I did not say my name. I called Rontu and he came back. The girl looked at him and then at me and smiled. She was older than I, but not so tall. She had a broad face and small eyes that were very black. When she smiled, I saw that her teeth were worn down from chewing seal sinew, but they were very white. I was still holding the cormorant skirt and the girl pointed to it and said something. There was one word- wintscha- which sounded like a word that means pretty in our language. I was so proud of the skirt that I did not think. The spear was in my hand, but I held up the skirt so the sunlight could shine on all of it. The girl jumped down from the ledge and came over to me and touched it. "Wintscha," she said again.
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
"I hope so," said Maddie sadly. She felt sad because she knew she would never see the little tight-lipped Polish girl again and couldn't ever really make things right between them. She went home and she pinned her drawing over a torn place in the pinkflowered wall-paper in the bedroom. The shabby room came alive from the brilliancy of the colors. Maddie sat down on the edge of her bed and looked at the drawing. She had stood by and said nothing, but Wanda had been nice to her anyway.
Tears blurred her eyes and she gazed for a long time at the picture. Then hastily she rubbed her eyes and studied it intently. The colors in the dress were so vivid she had scarcely noticed the face and head of the drawing. But it looked like her, Maddie! It really did. The same short blonde hair, blue eyes, and wide straight mouth. Why, it really looked like her own self! Wanda had really drawn this for her. Wanda had drawn her! In excitement she ran over to Peggy's. "Peg!" she said. "Let me see your picture." "What's the matter?" asked Peggy as they clattered up the stairs to her room, where Wanda's drawing was lying face down on the bed. Maddie carefully lifted it up. "Look! She drew you. That's you!" she exclaimed. And the head and the face of this picture did look like the auburn-haired Peggy. "What did I say!" said Peggy. "She must have really liked us anyway." "Yes, she must have," agreed Maddie, and she blinked away the tears that came every time she thought of Wanda standing alone in that sunny spot in the school yard close to the wall, looking stolidly over at the group of laughing girls after she walked off, after she had said, "Sure, a hundred of them- all lined up..."
Date: ______________________________
T-Chart: Comparing Two Texts or Works I can compare two different works about a similar theme, topic, or idea theme / topic / idea
The common _________________ is ____________________________________________________________ Work #1:
Work #2:
Evidence
Evidence
Analysis
Analysis
Evidence
Evidence
Analysis
Analysis
Both works are similar in that _______________________________________________________________________. Work #1
One difference is that in ___________, ________________________________________________________________. Work #2
However, in _____________, ________________________________________________________________________. Find more resources at https://goalbookapp.com
.
© Goalbook
Name: ______________________________________________________________________
T-Chart: Comparing Two Texts or Works
Date: ______________________________
I can compare two different works about a similar theme, topic, or idea theme / topic / idea
theme about unexpected friendship The common _________________ is ____________________________________________________________. Work #1: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Evidence
“… she was one of the Aleuts that killed my people.”
Work #2:
Evidence
This shows that Karana thought that the girl was an enemy at first. Analysis
Evidence
The Birchbark House
“ … and couldn't ever really make things right between them. ” Maggie feels that she did not get along with Wanda, the Polish girl.
Analysis
“The spear was in my hand, but I held up the skirt so the sunlight could shine on all of it.”
Evidence
Karana started to feel friendship to the new girl and showed her dress to her. Analysis
“ ‘What did I say!’ said Peggy. ‘She must have really liked us anyway’ ” Maggie learns that Wanda was really kind to her and drew pictures of her and Peggy.
Analysis
Both works are similar in that _______________________________________________________________________. both girls are friends with another girl who is very different from them. Work #1
One difference is that in __________, _________________________________________________________________. Karana is making a friend with someone who killed her people Island Work #2
Birchbark Maggie is friends with someone she did not treat well. However, in ___________, __________________________________________________________________________. Find more resources at https://goalbookapp.com
.
© Goalbook
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
My spear stood beside the mouth of the cave within easy reach. The girl was not more than ten paces from me and with one movement I could have picked up the spear and thrown it. Why I did not throw the spear, I do not know, for she was one of the Aleuts who had killed my people on the beach of Coral Cove. She said something and Rontu left the mouth of the cave and walked slowly toward her. The hair raised on his neck, but then he walked to where she stood and let her touch him. The girl looked at me and made a motion with her hands which I took to mean that Rontu was hers. "No," I cried and shook my head.
I picked up my spear. She started to turn and I thought that she was going to flee back through the brush. She made another motion which I took to mean that Rontu was now mine. I did not believe her. I held the spear over my shoulder, ready to throw."Tutok," she said, pointing to herself. I did not say my name. I called Rontu and he came back. The girl looked at him and then at me and smiled. She was older than I, but not so tall. She had a broad face and small eyes that were very black. When she smiled, I saw that her teeth were worn down from chewing seal sinew, but they were very white. I was still holding the cormorant skirt and the girl pointed to it and said something. There was one word- wintscha- which sounded like a word that means pretty in our language. I was so proud of the skirt that I did not think. The spear was in my hand, but I held up the skirt so the sunlight could shine on all of it. The girl jumped down from the ledge and came over to me and touched it. "Wintscha," she said again.
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
"I hope so," said Maddie sadly. She felt sad because she knew she would never see the little tight-lipped Polish girl again and couldn't ever really make things right between them. She went home and she pinned her drawing over a torn place in the pinkflowered wall-paper in the bedroom. The shabby room came alive from the brilliancy of the colors. Maddie sat down on the edge of her bed and looked at the drawing. She had stood by and said nothing, but Wanda had been nice to her anyway.
Tears blurred her eyes and she gazed for a long time at the picture. Then hastily she rubbed her eyes and studied it intently. The colors in the dress were so vivid she had scarcely noticed the face and head of the drawing. But it looked like her, Maddie! It really did. The same short blonde hair, blue eyes, and wide straight mouth. Why, it really looked like her own self! Wanda had really drawn this for her. Wanda had drawn her! In excitement she ran over to Peggy's. "Peg!" she said. "Let me see your picture." "What's the matter?" asked Peggy as they clattered up the stairs to her room, where Wanda's drawing was lying face down on the bed. Maddie carefully lifted it up. "Look! She drew you. That's you!" she exclaimed. And the head and the face of this picture did look like the auburn-haired Peggy. "What did I say!" said Peggy. "She must have really liked us anyway." "Yes, she must have," agreed Maddie, and she blinked away the tears that came every time she thought of Wanda standing alone in that sunny spot in the school yard close to the wall, looking stolidly over at the group of laughing girls after she walked off, after she had said, "Sure, a hundred of them- all lined up..."
