The student will create their own Venn diagram using Canva software based on their paper copies created in the “During” portion of the learning activity and utilizing the question responses given in the "during activity," to support the development of the Venn diagram.
The student will complete a digital Venn diagram using the free online software offered by Canva at https://www.canva.com/.
As students independently create their Venn diagrams, the teacher can use the following questions to assess student understanding of the stories and the development of their digital Venn Diagram:
1. At the beginning of the stories, what reasons do the authors present for the threesomes to leave their current habitat? What were the plot differences? (One group was leaving to seek their fortune. The other author simply writes that it was time for the pigs to leave home.)
2. The author describes the coyote as quick, quiet… almost invisible, and a magical trickster. How does this differ from the way the wolf is portrayed in the first story?
- Similar: both were canine
- Different: Wolves are larger/Coyote smaller~ live in different habitats
3. Who were the “bad” characters in the stories?
4. How were the number of animals, and houses similar in both stories?
5. How are the settings similar/different?
- edge of a beautiful forest/desert
6. How are the houses similar or different?
- Straw/tumbleweed (type of desert straw)
- sticks/saguaro ribs (a form of long stick from the desert)
- bricks/adobe bricks (a type of mud brick baked in the sun from the desert)
7. What do the “bad guys” retort in both books?
- “I’ll huff and puff and blow down your house.”
8. What do the pigs tell the “bad guy” in both versions?
- “Not by the hair on my chinny, chin, chin.”
9. Why did the first pig run to the pig that made her house out of sticks?
- Probably because it was closest, and he could warn her that the wolf was coming.
10. Why do you think the first pig went to the second pig’s house instead of somewhere else?