Teach your class about fear and cowardice from the perspective of a doe and her fawn. A teaching resource based on Aesop's "The Fawn and His Mother" includes an audio version of the fable, a text passage, and a reading activity in which readers identify problems and solutions before drafting a short summary.

Concepts

writing organization, aesop's fables, active reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Assign a journal prompt for learners to write about a time when they felt frightened, even though they knew there was nothing to be afraid of
• Encourage class members to identify their own strengths, and how these assets would protect them in an emergency

Classroom Considerations

• Fable duraton is 0:47

Pros

• Sentence stems within the graphic organizer help struggling writers

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.5.2 RL.5.3 RL.6.2 RL.6.3 RL.7.2 RL.7.3 RL.8.2 RL.8.3