The document provides instructions for an activity comparing and contrasting the poems "Mother to Son" and "A Psalm of Life". Students are asked to examine the two poems and draw similarities and differences in relation to their subject, mood/tone, and central theme or message about life. Definitions of "comparing" and "contrasting" are also included to help students understand how to analyze the two selections.

1. AGRICULTURE HIGH SCHOOL
Agriculture, Midsayap, Cotabato
Name: __________________________________ Date: ______________
Year and Section: _________________________ Score: _____________
Subject: English 9
Activity No. 1-23
Activity Title: Comparing and Contrasting (Mother to Son and A Psalm of Life).
Objective: To draw similarities and differences of the featured selections in relation to the
theme.
COMPARING- examining resemblances or differences {comparison}
When you compare things, you consider them and discover the differences or
similarities between them.
CONTRASTING- a difference between people, ideas, situations, things that are being compared:
You say by contrast or in contrast, or in contrast to something, to show that you are
mentioning a very different situation from the one you have just mentioned.
You also point out or consider the differences between those things.
MOTHER TO SON A PSALM OF LIFE
SUBJECT
THE MOOD/ TONE
THEME OR GENERAL TRUTH
OBSERVED IN LIFE