Literature: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 Handouts: The Fox and the Crow The Wolf and the House Dog Homework: * Read AR book 20 - 30 minutes daily and record progress on chart Meet your AR goal by October 26 * STUDY for Lit Test #3: Folk Lore Unit (Test is Tues., Oct. 23) Study Cornell Notes #9a, 9b, 10, 11, 12 Refer to Study Guide for Folklore Unit See website pages Resources and Cornell Notes 3. Assignments Due: Have your flow chart boxes handy from Monday (Events you recorded from “Bruh Bear . . .”)

Today’s Goal: Learn more about folk tales as you read and analyze two of Aesop’s fables (handouts in class, also online as a PDF). Outcomes: Dramatize two fables through interpretive read aloud performances. Identify “cause and effect” events and list them in a flow chart. State the “moral” for each of two fables. Explain who Aesop was and how he used his creative talents (for what specific purpose). Name two characteristics that are commonly true for many folk tale heroes.

Starter 1: Like myths, folk tales and fables have been around for thousands of years, and they were told for hundreds of years before they were ever recorded. On Monday you read the folk tale “He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit.” Today we will read two fables, both of them by Aesop. You may recall from Monday’s “Before You Read” handout that two things are commonly true of most folk tales and fables. Can anyone recall what those two elements were? (Hint: One has to do with the characters, the other has to do with the plot.) The characters are “trickster heroes.” The character’s tricks often teach a lesson.

Starter 2: What is the term we use for the lesson in a fable? The moral of the story As we read today’s fables, see if you can anticipate who the trickster hero will be. Then see if you can guess where the author is going with the purpose behind each fable—the moral of the story.

Starter 3: Did you notice . . . Did you notice that the format of these two fables is different from the folk tale you read on Monday? What is different about today’s two stories—how are they meant to be read? As a dramatization So, let’s do these two fables as a “reader’s theater drama.”  We won’t physically act these out, but we will create the effect of a play by assigning roles to deliver the character’s lines. Everyone take a few minutes to read both fables silently. Read to make sure you understand what is happening, and try to envision the characters as you read silently. Imagine how you might deliver those lines if you were that character.

Starter 4: Let’s assign roles. We have a total of five characters, two in the first fable and three in the second one. When we come to the final line, everyone participates except the assigned characters. We’ll say that line together—without shouting. For “The Fox and the Crow,” we need a narrator and a fox. . . . For “The Wolf and the House Dog,” we need a narrator, a wolf, and a dog. . . .

Starter 5: Let’s review . . . Now that we have read both fables, let’s review: What is the moral of “The Wolf and the House Dog”? What was the moral of “The Fox and the Crow”? What did we learn about Aesop? He was . . . From Africa, enslaved in Greece, credited for many fables, and his fables made political statements or political points. What two things are commonly true of most folk tale heroes? They are tricksters They are also underdogs (at a disadvantage in some way) If time remains, do flow charts of events for each fable. Use the back of the notebook paper you used on Monday for “Bruh Lion.”