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NAME:  _______________________________________________________________________________    Aesop’s  Fables  online:  http://read.gov/aesop/    

FABLES  The  word  “fable”  comes  from  the  Latin  fabula,  which  means  tale  in  English.  A  fable  is  a  

short  story  that  teaches  a  moral  lesson.  Usually  fables  use  non-­‐human  creatures  as  their  characters.  These  characters  are  almost  always  “anthromorphized”  or  given  human  characteristics  such  as  talking,  working,  cooking,  etc.    (This  is  a  bit  different  than  personification  as  in  personification  the  human-­‐like  characteristics  given  to  non-­‐humans  are  to  provide  imagery  to  writing.)     Often  when  we  hear  the  word  “fable”  we  think  of  the  famous  Greek  Aesop  as  he  is  supposedly  the  “father  of  fables”.  Not  much  is  known  of  him,  but  supposedly  he  was  a  former  slave  who  lived  around  the  7th  C  B.C.  Whoever  this  man  was,  his  stories  were  told  from  generation  to  generation  and  are  commonly  known  to  many  today.    

 YOUR  ASSIGNMENT:  Explore  the  website  above  and  select  a  fable  to  read.  Try  and  find  a  fable  you  have  never  read  before.    Answer  the  questions  below  in  complete  sentences  with  proper  punctuation,  capitalization  and  spelling.  Submit  your  assignment  in  the  appropriate  

SHOWBIE  folder.      1.    What  is  the  title  of  the  fable  you  chose?      2.  Who  are  the  characters  in  your  fable?  Is  there  a  clear  protagonist  as  well  as  an  antagonist?    If  so,  identify  each.          3.  What  is  the  problem  or  conflict  that  the  characters  are  facing  in  the  fable?            4.  Summarize  the  fable  in  two  to  three  sentences.        5.    State  the  moral  of  the  fable  as  shown  at  the  bottom  of  the  text.  Rephrase  the  moral  of  the  fable  in  your  own  words.    MORAL:      REPHRASE: