1. Who Has Seen the Wind? By Christina Rossetti
Included: The poem and rigorous question set activities promoting higher level-thinking development

2. Poem Jacob’s Ladder Goals & Objectives Habits of Mind
Tier 1
Poem
Jacob’s Ladder Goals & Objectives
Habits of Mind

3. Who Has Seen the Wind? Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you:
By Christina Rossetti
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.

4. Students will be able: Ladder D
D1: Paraphrasing—To restate lines read using their own words.
D2: Summarizing—To provide a synopsis of text sections.
D3: Creative Synthesis—To create something new using what they have learned from the reading and their synopsis.
Ladder E
E1: Understanding Emotion – to explain how emotion and feeling are conveyed in a text and/or their personal experience.
E2: Expressing Emotion – to articulate their feelings through a variety of media (e.g., song, art, poem, story, essay, speech)
E3: Using Emotion – to analyze how emotion affects the passage and/or the reader.

5. Working Interdependently Thinking about Thinking (metacognition)
Habits of Mind
Working Interdependently
Thinking about Thinking (metacognition)
Innovating, Creating, Imagining
Refer to Jacob’s Ladder Story Table for Ladder D & E Thinking Questions.

6. (Discussion) High Level Strategies with Ladder D & E Questions
Tier 2 Rigor
(Discussion)
High Level Strategies with
Ladder D & E Questions

7. Discussion Strategies: Think-Pair-Share, Write-around, Sequencing pictures, Role Play, Journaling.
Choose 3 of 4 questions below to complete.
D1: How best can you explain what the poet means by “But when the trees bow down their heads,/The Wind is passing by”.
D2: Can you elaborate on how giving human qualities (personification) to the leaves (“trembling”) and trees (“bow their heads”) impacts the meaning of the poem?
E1: How does this poem make you feel? Why?
E3: How does weather and mood affect you? How do you think it affects the author? How did she try to explain that in the poem?

8. Reflections/Relevance (D3) (E2)
Tier 3
Reflections/Relevance
(D3) (E2)

9. Choose two of the ideas to complete. Be creative.
1. Compose your own poem about a favorite or scary part of nature you recognize. Use personification to illustrate your ideas in words. (D3)
2. Work with a partner. Close your eyes and have your partner read the poem to you. What color comes to your mind? Design the picture that was painted in your mind. Select an optional project strategy below or your own strategy to show your mind picture. (E2)
3. Find and read the book “My Many Colored Days” by Dr. Seuss. Design an original poem on the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, and purple) following the same pattern from the book. “On red days I feel __________ (emotion word) like a __________ (noun) when it _________ (action).
Optional project strategies:  Commercial Role Play; Create a Puppet Show; Charts, Posters, Flyers, Brochures; Picture Dictionary.