102 Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 6A | The Fox and the Grapes
- Evaluative Does this fable have personification in it (personification is
when animals act like people)?- Yes, this fable has personification in it.
Which character acts like a person? How does the animal act like a
person? - The fox acts like a person because the fox talks.
[You may wish to fill out the Personification Chart for the fox.]
- Yes, this fable has personification in it.
Animal
Things that
Animals Really Do
Things that Animals Really
Can’t Do (Personification)
oxen Pull the plow
Eat hay
Talk in a polite manner, saying
“excuse me” and “please”
wolf Prowls
Wants to eat sheep
Dresses in disguise to trick
others
fox Eats grapes
Lunges and jumps
Ta lks
- Literal Why does the fox lunge and jump at the grapes?
- The fox wants to eat the grapes.
- Inferential Why does the fox walk away with his nose to the air and
call the grapes sour?- The fox walks away with his nose in the air and calls the grapes sour
because he was not able to get them.
- The fox walks away with his nose in the air and calls the grapes sour
- Evaluative [Show Image Cards 2-4 in random order] Does this show
the beginning, middle, or end of the fable? How do you know? [Have
students point out these scenes on Response Card 6.] - Evaluative All of Aesop’s fables, or stories, were meant to teach a
moral, or a lesson, about how to behave. What is the moral of this
story?- You shouldn’t speak badly about something that you once wanted, just
because you can’t have it.
[Accept paraphrasing by students. You may wish to write two of them
under the image of the fable.]
Is this an important lesson for you to remember? Why or why not? - This is an important lesson for me to remember because I should not
speak badly about something just because I cannot have it.
- You shouldn’t speak badly about something that you once wanted, just