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Little Raven - Teaching Notes and Learning Activities
Activity 5 7-10 Curriculum Compare and Contrast |
For Teachers
Little Raven shows similarities in the themes explored by Edgar Allen Poe in his poem, ‘The Raven’, written in 1845.
You can read The Raven from the Poetry Foundation website here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven
Both Little Raven by Bridget Uppill and The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe create a sense of human personification of the raven as well as portraying the raven as an ominous presence.
Task:
Part 1- Have your students read through Little Raven and discuss as a class the themes of the book.
Prompting questions:
Part 2- have the students read through Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”.
Discus the themes of the poem.
Prompting questions:
Part 3-
As a class create a Venn diagram on a white board and discuss similarities and differences between the two texts.
Little Raven shows similarities in the themes explored by Edgar Allen Poe in his poem, ‘The Raven’, written in 1845.
You can read The Raven from the Poetry Foundation website here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven
Both Little Raven by Bridget Uppill and The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe create a sense of human personification of the raven as well as portraying the raven as an ominous presence.
Task:
Part 1- Have your students read through Little Raven and discuss as a class the themes of the book.
Prompting questions:
- Do you think the author likes Ravens? Why/why not?
- On page two of the story the author describes the raven has having many colours in its feathers even though it is a jet black bird, why?
- What do you think the word nesciently means?
- Is there a moral to this story? What is the author trying to tell the reader?
- Who is the person in this story? Is it the author or is it yourself?
- How has the author personified the raven in this text?
Part 2- have the students read through Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”.
Discus the themes of the poem.
Prompting questions:
- Who is the raven in this poem?
- What story is Poe trying to depict?
- What is the setting of this poem? Could this poem work in any other setting?
- How is madness explored in this poem?
- What is significance of the raven in mythology or literature?
- How has the author personified the raven in this text?
Part 3-
As a class create a Venn diagram on a white board and discuss similarities and differences between the two texts.
Conclusions-
Students can delve further into their understanding of this text by exploring a number of tasks, for example:
1) Developing a compare and contrast essay of the two texts.
2) Altering the text of Little Raven to have an alternative ending that is similar to Poe’s The Raven.
3) Developing illustrations for Poe’s The Raven in a similar way to Little Raven’s style.
4) Change the setting of The Raven to be in the bush/forest.
Students can delve further into their understanding of this text by exploring a number of tasks, for example:
1) Developing a compare and contrast essay of the two texts.
2) Altering the text of Little Raven to have an alternative ending that is similar to Poe’s The Raven.
3) Developing illustrations for Poe’s The Raven in a similar way to Little Raven’s style.
4) Change the setting of The Raven to be in the bush/forest.
