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Fables
WHAT IS A FABLE
FEATURES
FROG FABLES
FROG SONG
WORKSHEET

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WHAT IS A FABLE

• A fable is a very short story which is meant to
  illustrate a point or teach us a lesson. Usually,
  but not always, fables are stories about animals
  that talk like people. The lesson that a fable
  teaches us is called a moral.A parable means
  something similar. It is usually short fictitious
  story that illustrates a moral attitude or a
  religious principle. Many common sayings come
  from Aesop? Fables ?Dont count your chickens
  before they hatch,? and ?Honesty is the best
  policy,? and ?Look before you leap? are familiar
  examples. Aesop is believed to have been a Greek
  slave who made up these stories to make his life
  easier. Nobody is really sure if Aesop made up
  these fables. What is certain, however, is that
  the stories called Aesop's Fables are so
  wonderful that they have been told over and over
  again for thousands of years.

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FEATURES

• Structure short, pithy animal tale, most often
  told or written with a moral tagged on in the
  form of a proverb.
• Moral it conveys a moral, which is the aim of
  most fables, and the tale is the vehicle by which
  this is done, providing both an illustration of
  and compelling argument for the moral.
• Personification Fables involve animals that
  speak and act like people.
• Allegory The symbolic representation of truths
  or generalizations about human existence.

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The Frogs Desiring a King

• The Frogs were living as happy as
  could be in a marshy swamp that just suited them.
  They went splashing about, caring for nobody and
  nobody troubled them. But some of the frogs
  thought that this was not right, that they should
  have a king and a proper constitution, so they
  sent up a petition to Zeus to give them what they
  wanted. ?Mighty Zeus,? they cried, ?send unto us
  a king that will rule over us and keep us in
  order.?
• Zeus laughed at their croaking and threw
  down into the swamp a huge Log. The Frogs were
  frightened out of their lives by the commotion
  made in their midst, and all rushed to the bank
  to look at the horrible monster. But after a
  time, seeing that it did not move, one or two of
  the boldest of them ventured out towards the Log,
  and even dared to touch it. Still it did not
  move. Then the greatest hero of the Frogs jumped
  upon the Log and commenced dancing up and down
  upon it thereupon all the Frogs came and did the
  same, and for some time the Frogs went about
  their business every day without taking the
  slightest notice of their new King Log lying in
  their midst.But this did not suit them, so they
  sent another petition to Zeus, and said to him,
• We want a real king ? one that will really
  rule over us.?
• Now this made Zeus angry, so he sent them
  a big Stork that soon set to work gobbling them
  all up. Then the Frogs repented, but it was too
  late.
• THE MORAL Better no rule than cruel rule.

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The Boys and the Frogs

• Some boys, playing near a pond, saw a number
  of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with
  stones. They killed several of them, when one of
  the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water,
  cried out "Pray stop, my boys what is sport to
  you, is death to us.
• THE MORAL One man's pleasure may be another's
  pain.

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The , the , and the

• A Mouse who always lived on the land, by an
  unlucky chance, formed an intimate acquaintance
  with a Frog, who lived, for the most part, in the
  water. One day, the Frog was intent on mischief.
  He tied the foot of the Mouse tightly to his own.
  Thus joined together, the Frog led his friend the
  Mouse to the meadow where they usually searched
  for food. After this, he gradually led him
  towards the pond in which he lived, until
  reaching the banks of the water, he suddenly
  jumped in, dragging the Mouse with him.
• The Frog enjoyed the water amazingly, and
  swam croaking about, as if he had done a good
  deed. The unhappy Mouse was soon sputtered and
  drowned in the water, and his poor dead body
  floating about on the surface. A Hawk observed
  the floating Mouse from the sky, and dove down
  and grabbed it with his talons, carrying it back
  to his nest. The Frog, being still fastened to
  the leg of the Mouse, was also carried off a
  prisoner, and was eaten by the Hawk.
• THE MORAL "Choose your allies carefully"

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Frog in a Milk-Pail

• A frog was hopping around a farmyard, when it
  decided to investigate the barn. Being somewhat
  careless, and maybe a little too curious, he
  ended up falling into a pail half-filled with
  fresh milk. As he swam about attempting to reach
  the top of the pail, he found that the sides of
  the pail were too high and steep to reach.He
  tried to stretch his back legs to push off the
  bottom of the pail but found it too deep.But
  this frog was determined not to give up, and he
  continued to struggle.He kicked and squirmed and
  kicked and squirmed, until at last, all his
  churning about in the milk had turned the milk
  into a big hunk of butter.The butter was now
  solid enough for him to climb onto and get out of
  the pail!
• The MORAL Never Give Up!

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Five Green and Speckled Frogs

• Five green and speckled frogs
• Sat on a speckled log
• Eating some most delicious bugs
• YYYYUUUUMMMM YYYYUUUUMMMM
• One jumped into the pool
• Where it was nice and cool
• Then there were
• Four green and speckled frogs
• GGGGLLLLUUUUBBBB GGGGLLLLUUUUBBBB
• (Repeat in descending order.)

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My muddy buddy

• I have a buddy,My buddy's a toad.My buddy is
  muddy,He's flat on the road. But he is my
  buddy,My buddy to stay.Until he's peeled
  up,And sailed away.

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WORKSHEET

• Choose a fable
• 1. Write a letter to one of the characters.
• 2. Write a letter from one character to
  another.
• 3. Create a fable of your own. Pay
• attention to the features and the structure
• of a fable.
• Enjoy your
  work!