Can you ever change your true nature? Aesop's "The Cat-Maiden" explores the theme of identity with an experiment involving a cat-turned-wife. After listening to an audio version of the fable, learners argue their own opinions about the flexibility of human nature with a list of pros and cons.

Concepts

aesop's fables, human nature, explanatory writing, active reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Incorporate into a lesson on Roman gods and goddesses 
• Encourage your writers to organize their written responses by creating a model concept map

Classroom Considerations

• Flesch-Kincaid readability score is 4.7
• Recording is just over one minute long

Pros

• Provides a text version as well as an audio file
• Story is amusing and the moral is relatable

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.5.2 W.5.2.a RL.6.2 RL.7.2 RL.8.2 W.6.2.a W.7.2.a W.8.2.a