Garde 1 - Read-Aloud Supplemental Guide

102 Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 6A | The Fox and the Grapes

3. 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.]
   
   
   
   

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

4. Literal Why does the fox lunge and jump at the grapes?
   
   
   • The fox wants to eat the grapes.
   
   
   
   


5. 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.
   
   
   
   


6. 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.]


7. 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.