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University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Goose With the Golden Eggs" eBookUniversity of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Goose With the Golden Eggs" eBook
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University of Massachusetts
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University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Goose With the Golden Eggs"

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Two retellings of Aesop's Fable "The Goose with the Golden Eggs." Both stories illustrate the same moral, "Greed often overreaches itself." The first is a traditional retelling of the original fable. The second is a modern retelling with a different setting and characters.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

aesop's fables

Additional Tags

golden egg, goose, greed, aesop, the goose with the golden egg, university of massachusetts, fable

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

RL.2.2

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