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Classroom Activities : <br /> Create an Aesop's Fables Newscast! Fill In the Blanks! <br /> This activity incorporates creative thinking, Each one of Aesop's Fables ends with a lesson or a <br /> writing, and performance! moral - and many of those lessons have become <br /> familiar sayings that we still use today! Using the <br /> 1. Break students into small groups. Have each words below, fill in the blanks to complete some of <br /> group create a segment of a newcast about Aesop's best known sayings! <br /> Aesop's Fables. The possibilities are endless 1. Beauty is only skin <br /> and the more creative, the better the result! 2 of a feather flock together. <br /> Ideas for segments could include:an interview <br /> with the people of the town in "The Boy Who 3. Don't your chickens <br /> Cried Wolf," a cooking show with recipes for before they've hatched. <br /> grapes, an follow-up story on the friendship 4. Look before you <br /> between the Lion and the Mouse - even the 5. Slow and steady wins the <br /> weather and commercials could be tackled! <br /> 2. Discuss all the things that make a play pos- 6. before you act. <br /> sible. Have each group think about how cos- 7. often are deceiving. <br /> tumes, props, and the set could help bring their g. Little friends may become_ friends. <br /> news segments to life. If there's time,try to cre- g. Th'r v s are not alway what they <br /> ate some of these props or costume pieces <br /> from everyday items! *think * e * leap at <br /> 3.Time for performance! Have each group per- bir ear * c deep <br /> form their segment of the news. Before you <br /> begin the "newscast" have students warm up ,tea ReS Net! <br /> their voices with an Aesop's -themed <br /> tongue twister (act this a e. : Online c d, ed by moral <br /> "Six short slow rds" -or- ? <br /> "Lions licki g lime and lemons" °$'ht <br /> ng fa <br /> Remind r students about being good ww php <br /> audie m ers while they watch their Flash '°' rovedby <br /> friends o e! <br /> Yo ish ie ites for'ct� i t! <br />