Garde 1 - Read-Aloud Supplemental Guide

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?