Moral:Appearances often are deceiving-from "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing "

Student

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Directions: Use this graphic organizer to help you to begin to work on writing your own fable. Use complete sentences

to fill

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in the boxes below with your chosen moral, characters. Setting and plot.

ECTC Standards

The lesson you want to teach

is the moral

of the story. Even though it should be very

brief it can still be profound. For example,

the moral of the fable of The Sun and the

Wind is “Kindness can be more effective

than strength.”

Start by deciding on the moral. When you

write your

story, the moral will appear at

the end. The moral fits well with the action

of the story.

Moral:

Fable provide good descriptions of

appearance, actions, and thoughts of

characters.

Character(s) embody

stereotypes that are obvious to the reader.

Choice of

character(s) enhances the

moral of the story.

Fables should have two or three

characters. Two is typical

Characters

:

Since your animals or characters act like

people, you can put them in natural

settings like a forest or a pond but you

could

also put them in a human setting.

For instance, you could have ants having

a tea party or a goat mowing the lawn!

The story needs to be told from the point

of view of the characters.

Setting

:

Plot contains a logical beginning, middle,

and end, that inc

rease the value of the

moral.

Plot:

Student’s Name: _________________________________________________________________________-

Directions: Use this graphic organizer to help you to begin to work on writing your own fable. Use complete sentences

to fill-in the boxes below with your chosen moral, characters. Setting and plot.

ECTC Standards

The lesson you want to teach is the moral

of the story. Even though it should be very

brief it can still be profound. For example,

the moral of the fable of The Sun and the

Wind is “Kindness can be more effective

than strength.”

Start by deciding on the moral. When you

write your story, the moral will appear at

the end. The moral fits well with the action

of the story.

Moral:

Fable provide good descriptions of

appearance, actions, and thoughts of

characters. Character(s) embody

stereotypes that are obvious to the reader.

Choice of character(s) enhances the

moral of the story.

Fables should have two or three

characters. Two is typical

Characters:

Since your animals or characters act like

people, you can put them in natural

settings like a forest or a pond but you

could also put them in a human setting.

For instance, you could have ants having

a tea party or a goat mowing the lawn!

The story needs to be told from the point

of view of the characters.

Setting:

Plot contains a logical beginning, middle,

and end, that increase the value of the

moral.

Plot: