Rearrange the letters to make a City.

AEOABRCLN

Rearrange the letters to make a City.

BARCELONA

Rearrange the letters to make the name of a character from a book.

AOETTRRRYHP

Rearrange the letters to make the name of a character from a book.

HARRY POTTER

What is an Allegory???When a story has two meanings, a surface, literal meaning and a hidden, deeper meaning, this is called an allegory. The second level or deeper meaning may be political or historical, with characters representing important historical personages, or it may be more conceptual, with characters embodying certain ideas or principles. Many fables are considered allegorical.

Wait… What is a fable???

• A fable represents a type of allegory, often illustrating a moral through the use of animal characters.

Characteristics of a fable:

• They are fiction • They are meant to entertain • They are often allegorical (double meaning) • They are moral tales, usually with animal

characters• Fables are short

An Example: The Tortoise and the Hare

• The surface or literal meaning: The story concerns a Hare (a rabbit) who ridicules a slow-moving Tortoise and is challenged by the tortoise to a race. The hare soon leaves the tortoise behind and, confident of winning, takes a nap midway through the course. When the Hare awakes however, he finds that his competitor, crawling slowly but steadily, has arrived before him.

• Deeper Meaning: “Slow and Steady wins the race.”

Satire

• Definition of Satire: a way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc. Humor that shows the weaknesses or bad qualities of a person, government, society, etc.

Satire

• Writers have long used animals to satirise human beings. In fact, many political cartoons and literature use satire in this way.

• Satire is used to attack, mock and ridicule well known people (usually politicians and celebrities)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRBLeqsoRew

• This film introduces the notion of personification, and animals that possess human qualities.

• What do the animals in this film do which is unusual?

What is personification again???

Personification is when you assign the qualities of a person to something that isn't human or, in some cases, to something that isn't even alive.

The following sentences use the personification technique. See if you canidentify which part of the word or phrase is the personification. The answersare below:

• The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.• The run down house appeared depressed.• The first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow.• She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.• He did not realize that his last chance was walking out the

door.• The bees played hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed

from one to another.• The wind howled its mighty objection.• The snow swaddled the earth like a mother would her infant

child.• The river swallowed the earth as the water continued to rise

higher and higher.• Time flew and before we knew it, it was time for me to go

home.

• Can you think of other movies or stories where animals behave like humans?

Remember what characteristics a fable has?

• They are fiction • They are meant to entertain • They are often allegorical (double meaning) • They are moral tales, usually with animal

characters• Fables are short

Activity 1

• 1. You will be reading through some of Aesop’s fables, highlighting the human qualities that the animals have.

• 2. Once you are done highlighting, you will get with a partner in order to discuss whether particular animals have particular traits (cunning fox, forgetful elephant, etc). You will complete fable worksheet #1.

Do you understand the morals at the end of the fables?

• What are they? List these on a sheet of notebook paper, you will need them later.

Activity 2

• Choose a moral from those discussed in the previous lesson

• Think about what the moral means and what kind of story it could conclude

• Think about what animals would suit this story • Identify a suitable setting for this story • You will write a quick, simple fable, culminating the

moral chosen • If you did not finish in class this is homework