How does one's perception affect their representation of places and events? Readers investigate this question by listening to Aesop's "The Lion and the Statue" and completing a graphic organizer to analyze characters and their motivations.

Concepts

aesop's fables, active reading, characterization, evidence

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Consider discussing archetypes within fables when introducing the activity
• Start with a warm-up writing prompt on a real-life example of multiple perspectives coming to different conclusions

Classroom Considerations

• Requires speakers play the audiobook
  

Pros

• Posts readability score on the resource as a Flesch-Kincaid level 7.0
• Graphic organizer within the activity works for future texts as well
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.5.1 RL.5.3 RL.6.1 RL.6.3 RL.7.1 RL.7.3 RL.8.1 RL.8.3