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Legends
Looking for fun and entertaining legends to read to your students? Try this site and explore the easy to read online stories. `
Harvard University
Harvard: The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions
This paper "The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions" by Mary Carruthers is a literary analysis of the Wife of Bath's Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and her reference to Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigative Case: Protistan Tales of Atlantic White Cedar Swamps
A WebQuest where students explore microbial diversity by looking at the extreme habitat of the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp. Students will learn about protists through personification theme of Aesop's Fables. At the end of the lesson,...
PBS
Pbs the West: Cities of Gold
This PBS site recounts the efforts of Spanish explorers to find the fabled gold of the New World.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: The People's Highway: Route 66: 1930s 1940s
This section of the America on the Move exhibition explores the substance behind the myth of Route 66, telling the stories of real people who made their living on or beside the road and who traveled on the fabled highway.
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Dr. Seward's Gila Monster Web Site: Gila Monsters
In addition to covering morphology, range, unique adaptations, activity patterns food & metabolism, and intraspecific interactions, this this site examines several interesting superstitions and fables related to the gila monster.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Describe Themes in Literary Texts (English 7 Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is about themes, the central messages in literature. Whatever their genre might be, writers have some wisdom, some universal truth or insight to share; this...
FableVision
Fable Vision: Dolores Espoito: Benty
An easy-to-read children's story about being different and helping others.
FableVision
Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: The North Star: Writing Activity
Be inspired to write your own simple story or poem by choosing a picture from this collection of child-centered illustrations.
BBC
Bbc News: Us Election 2010: The Fable of the Endangered Incumbent
Article discussing the winners and losers in the American primary elections in 2010. (9 June 2010)
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Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Who Was King [Pdf]
A reader's theater script is provided for a story, Who Was King. Five character roles are needed in this activity.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999: Gunter Grass
Explore the life and writing of Gunter Grass -- the recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature -- through this multimedia website, which provides video clips, primary texts, images, and resources.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Adaptation of the Boy Who Cried "Wolf"
After sharing the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," students will be introduced to the story of "Leo the Longhorn." Students will act out the nattive of "Leo the Longhorn" by paying close attention to the skill of sequencing.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1989: Camilo Jose Cela
Read about Camilo Jose Cela (1916-2006 CE), the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. This website is organized into the following sections: "Press Release," "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Nobel Lecture," and "Other...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Animal Farm: George Orwell and Literary Terms
This lesson in the Animal Farm unit focuses on George Orwell, literary terms, and the Russian Revolution. It provides links to biographies of Orwell including text and video, links to literary terms fitting to Animal Farm, and links to...
Other
Indigenous Peoples Literature: Geronimo
A comprehensive look at the life of Geronimo, whose extraordinary fierceness and independence led many to consider him gifted with magic. See quotations attributed to him, as well as tales of his fabled ability to walk without leaving...
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Club Des Poetes: Jean De La Fontaine
A short French biography by Piers Tenniel, and a link to an edition of the complete Fables.
Other
Indigenous Peoples' Literature: Iroquois Oral Traditions
This website provides links to numerous Iroquois stories and fables.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Semantic Analysis
Lesson introduces learners to comprehension of knowing how words work. Students learn semantic feature analysis and examine folktales, myths, and fables using this analysis to better understand these terms and texts.
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Jc Online Reading Room: Contos Infantis
This resource provides a collection of interactive stories, fables, and exercises for students.
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National Science Digital Library: Smile: Aesop's Arithmetic
A cross-curricular instructional activity integrating Aesop's The Crow and the Pitcher with an experiment testing the outcome of the fable using volume and displacement concepts.
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Micmac and Maliseet Storytelling
Micmac and Maliseet culture is preserved through oral history and the tradition of community storytellers. View a sample of storytelling. A great way to introduce students to myths and fables.
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The Children's Nursery and Its Traditions
An extensive list of links to Children's Nursery classics organized by page/chapter. Includes Beatrix Potter, Mother Goose, Aesop's Fables, Brothers Grimm tales and more!
CNN
Cnn: China's Three Gorges Dam
Article describes the raging controversy over the gigantic dam on the "Fabled Yangzi River." Decide for yourself; will this help China enough to warrant the environmental destruction?
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