176 Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 10A | All Stories Are Anansi’s
[You may wish to continue filling out the personification chart.]
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
chickens Live in broods Talk
rabbits Live in a rabbithole
Eat plants from the
garden
Ta lk
Wear clothes and walk on two
feet
sparrows Fly Implore Peter to exert himself
(talk)
spiders Spin webs Talk
Quarrel
python Swallows a goat
Slithers
Ta lks
leopard Sharp teeth
Hunts at night
Ta lks
hornet Stings that burn
Flies
Buzzes
Ta lks
[Please continue to model the Think Pair Share process for students, as
necessary, and scaffold students in their use of the process.]
I am going to ask you two questions. I will give you a minute to think
about the questions, and then I will ask you to turn to your partner and
discuss the questions. Finally, I will call on several of you to share what
you discussed with your partner.
Sentence Frames:
Do you think the hole Anansi
made to capture Osebo is the
most clever trick? (Yes/No)
I think Anansi’s most clever trick
is when he...
... is the most clever trick
because...
7. Evaluative Think Pair Share: Anansi tricked the three animals so that
he could capture them and take them back to Nyame. Which trick do
you think is the most clever? Why?
➶ If you were Anansi, what other trick would you have played to
capture one of the animals?