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 Critical Thinking With Fables New and Old
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Brief Description A powerful modern-day fable leads to an exploration of Aesop’s fables and students writing their own. Objectives Students
Keywords fable, Aesop, writing, critical thinking Materials Needed
Lesson Plan Provide a copy of or project on a screen the story of the boy and the fence. Give students an opportunity to read the story, or read it aloud to them. When the reading is completed, ask students to think critically and to write a sentence or two to describe the moral, or lesson, of the story. Next, pair each student with another. Ask students to share their sentences about the moral of the story with their partners. Then discuss the moral of the story as a class. Explain to students that the story they just read was a modern-day lesson story, or fable. Fables have been a storytelling staple since ancient times when a well-known storyteller called Aesop recorded many fables. As a matter of fact, many of Aesop's stories will be familiar to students today. Share a handful of Aesop's stories with students. You might choose from the list of fables below. Do not share the moral that appears at the end of each story. After reading each story, let student pairs talk about the moral, or lesson, that they think the story was meant to teach. Students will see that many of the stories can teach more than one lesson. Fables Sutiable for Younger Students
Follow-Up Activities Note: The following modern adaptations all come from a single source; they were created by art students at the University of Massachusetts. The fables below were chosen for their suitability as examples. You might share these examples with younger students, but you should not allow them to freely explore the Web site; some of the other fables on the site are for mature audiences only. Assessment Assessment depends on which of the follow-up activities you selected to use. If students write a modern telling of one of Aesop's fables, you might apply your favorite writing rubric to that activity or you might adapt one of these resources: Lesson Plan Source Education WorldNational Standards Submitted By Gary Hopkins FINE ARTS: Visual Arts
LANGUAGE ARTS: English
See more Lesson Plans of the Day in our Lesson Plan of the Day Archive. (There you can search for lessons by subject too.) For additional language arts/reading lesson plans, see these Education World resources:
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Last updated 02/15/2009
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