JOHN MARK D.

TERANTE

ACTIVITY 3.1

1. Planting a garden and having a family.

2. SIMILAR

a. Require a great deal of work, especially as they grow and as the season change.

b. Plants became dependents on you for sustenance, much like your children depend on you for foods
and drinks.

c. Like a thirsty child asking for a drink of water, your plants do the same.

d. You have to clean the space around your plants much like you would pick up toys and clothes that
have been thrown helter-skelter in your toddler's room.

e. To keep children healthy, parents their children disease with medicine and gardeners do the same
with insect repellant.

f. To nourish them, parents give children vitamins and gardeners used fertilizers, as both promote
healthy growth.

3. DIFFERENCE

a. As children grow and become adults, they need less and less care while plants die or become
dormant, children still maintain a vital role in a family unit.

ACTIVITY 3.2

1. h

2. j

3. f

4. i

5. g

6. c

7. e

8. a
9. d

10. b

ACTIVITY 3.3

FAIRY TALE 1
1. There lived two native
children, a brother and a
sister.
2. The boy decided to
seek his mother's
people.
3. He set off for his
journey wearing his
beloved coat of bird
skin.
PERFORMING TASK 1
BOTH
FAIRY TALE 2
1. The boy never grow up
bigger than a baby no 1. There lived a couple
matter how old he is. who had no children.
2. They had a child who has
2. The hazelnut child
the size of a hazelnut.
wants to become a
3. The sister lived her
messenger.
brother so much, and she
made a bow and arrow 3. Using his newfound
especially for him to shoot.
skill, the hazelnut child
4. The couple loved the hitched a ride on a stock
child very much and they
that was flying south for
took excellent care for him.
the winter and landed in
a faraway country.

COMPARING TWO STORIES

COMPARE AND STORY 1 STORY 2

CONTRAST

CHARACTER Pierre is a runner who is nervous to try Francesca is a swimmer who is nervous for a big
out for the track team. swim meet coming up.

SETTINGS Pierre is at track team tryout at the Francesca is at the middle school and the swim
middle school. meet.

PROBLEM Pierre is too nervous to run in the Francesca gets sick in the week of the big swim
races at tryouts. meet.
 EVENTS The track coach gives Pierre an Francesca has to go home sick from school and
encouraging word and helps Pierre to rest. She sleeps off the sickness.
calm down and focus.

SOLUTION Pierre wins the race during tryouts Francesca breaks a school record and leads her
and makes the team. team to victory against their rival team.

THEME Hard work pays off. Sometimes what you think is a bad thing actually
turns out to be a good thing.