Critical thinking can save lives! After listening to an audio retelling of Aesop's The Crow and the Pitcher, , learners build a mobile to storyboard the events from the plot.

Concepts

determination, critical thinking, aesop's fables, active reading, morals

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Introduce the activity with the artist Alex Calder and his work
• Explore the concept of surface area and why the crow's plan worked
• Show a video that depicts a real crow following the same process as the crow in the fable

Classroom Considerations

• Flesch-Kincaid readability score is 5.6
  
• Audio recording is one minute, 12 seconds long 

Pros

• Provides a hands-on experience for class members to demonstrate understanding

Cons

• Activity has readers recall versus analyze

Common Core

RL.5.2 RL.6.2 RL.7.2 RL.8.2