Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 2A | The Maid and the Milk Pail 43 Show image 2A-1: Milkmaid and the spilled milk
Does this illustration show the beginning, middle, or end of the fable?
How do you know? [Have students point to this image on Response
Card 2.]- This illustration shows the middle of the fable, because the milkmaid
spills the milk but has not gone home to tell her mother about it yet.
- 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?
- Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched. Or, don’t count on
having everything turn out exactly as you plan, because you may be
disappointed.
[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
always expect things to go my way.
[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 a question. I will give you a minute to think about
the question, and then I will ask you to turn to your partner and discuss
the question. Finally, I will call on several of you to share what you
discussed with your partner.
Sentence Frames:
Would you toss your head back?
(Yes/No)
I would ... to keep the milk from
spilling.
If I were the milkmaid, I would
...
6. Evaluative Think Pair Share: If you were the milkmaid, how would you
have kept the milk from spilling?
7. After hearing today’s story and questions and answers, do you have
any remaining questions? [If time permits, you may wish to allow for
individual, group, or class research of the text and/or other resources
to answer these remaining questions.]