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Three Doors, Two Tales: Welcoming a Stranger in China and Peru

Read two original tales set in China and Peru in which a stranger asks three places for help, then compare their theme and pattern of events.

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Aligned toRL.4.9

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 4
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students compare the pattern of events in two tales from different cultures.
Students identify the theme two tales share.
Students contrast the details and endings of two tales.

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Read the tales one at a time. Have students mark each of the three stops in both tales before they answer the comparison questions.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.4.9

Compare and contrast how stories, myths, and traditional tales from different cultures treat similar themes, topics, and patterns of events.

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Three Doors, Two Tales: Welcoming a Stranger in China and Peru

Compare two tales with the same pattern of events.

Read the tales

Read both tales carefully.

Tale 1: The Third Teahouse

1Long ago, on a mountain road in China, three teahouses stood in a row. Travelers stopped there to rest before the long climb. One rainy evening, an old man in a muddy coat came up the road, leaning on a bamboo stick.

2At the first teahouse, the owner frowned at his muddy boots. "We are full tonight," she said, although half the tables were empty. At the second teahouse, the owner said, "You may come in, but you must pay twice the price first." The old man bowed and walked on.

3At the third teahouse, a young woman named Mei hurried out with a dry cloth. She dried his coat by the stove and poured him her best tea. "Rest as long as you like," she said.

4In the morning, the old man smiled. "I grow tea on the far side of the mountain," he said. "I was looking for someone kind enough to share my finest leaves with." He gave Mei a pouch of tea that smelled like spring flowers. Soon travelers came from every village to taste it, and Mei's teahouse became the busiest on the road.

Tale 2: The Weaver's Door

1Long ago, in a market town high in the Andes Mountains of Peru, sellers packed up their stalls as a cold wind began to blow. An old woman with a heavy bundle on her back walked slowly through the square.

2She stopped at the potter's stall. "May I rest here until the storm passes?" she asked. "I have no room," said the potter, stacking his pots. She asked the hat seller next. "Only if you buy a hat," he said.

3At the edge of the square lived Sisa, a young weaver with a tiny house and one warm blanket. Sisa opened her door wide. She wrapped the old woman in her blanket and shared her bowl of potato soup.

4When Sisa woke, the old woman was gone. Beside the loom lay a new blanket woven in colors no one in town had ever seen. Sisa studied it and learned to weave those colors herself. Before long, buyers walked from distant valleys to see her blankets, and the potter and the hat seller wished they had been kinder.

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