"The Little Prince," a Commentary on the Human Spirit

Detail/Evidence Chart

Complete the chart by finding details and evidence for each topic from the story.

Fact, Question, Response Organizer

Use this worksheet to keep track of your thoughts as you listen to the audio story. In the "Fact" column, record interesting or useful factual information you learn about the topic. In the "Question" column, write questions that occur to you as you listen. Finally, in the "Response" column, make a list of responses to the story, either as they occur to you or in relation to one of the facts or questions you’ve listed.

Language Identification Organizer

Listen closely and check off each phrase as you hear it.

• you might say Paris or Marseilles.
• I think it's about life and death and what's important in life
• looks at the author's creative process.
• Saint-Exupery, she says, was a meticulous craftsman
• Saint-Exupery came to New York in 1940 after the Germans occupied France.
• A man looking very much like the author is standing on a cloud.
• a little sheep that looks very much like the sheep that appears in the opening lines
• including several adventures on Earth and one page on the wall mentions places in New York.
• There's a section where the narrator talks about humans inflated sense of self.
• so many talk about the boa constrictor eating the elephant,
• what's essential is what you can't see; what's inside the snake, what's inside your heart.

Fill-in-the-Blank Organizer

As you listen to the story, fill in the blank in each sentence below with the word or phrase that fits best.

• His wife, Laurie Kefalidis, has stood in the room where Saint-Exupery wrote and is happy about the book's connection to her .
• t's about life and death and what's important in life and I think he talks about falsehood or untruths or hypocrisy or duplicity in a very way actually.
• Writer and aviator, he left just after the publication of the book and returned to fly reconnaissance for the Allies.
• There are pages of writing all in French - he never mastered English - of sections that were deleted from the book, including several n Earth and one page on the wall mentions places in New York.
• What is is invisible to the eye.