DISCUSSANT : Deslie A.

Tigao
PROGRAM/YEAR : BSEd 2A-ENGLISH
TOPIC: : Source of Fables
INSTRUCTOR : Carmelin P. Mosa, Ph.D.
COURSE : EM7

 What are a fables?

 Fables is a short story that usually is about animals and that intended to
teach lesson.
 Fables are simple, traditional tales with a moral or lesson. They were told
thousands of years ago by storytellers in countries like Greece and Persia.
Characters are usually animals who behaved as humans. They often have
special qualities. The fox is usually cunning, the mouse frail and the lion,
powerful.
 Sources of fables
 Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to
Aesop, a slave and st the stories associated with his name have
descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to
be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as
artistic media. Story teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece
between 620 and 564 BCE.
 collections of Aesop's fables were among the earliest books in a variety of
languages. Through the means of later collections, and translations or
adaptations of them, Aesop's reputation as a fabulist was transmitted
throughout the world.
 Fables a Short Anthology
 The ant and the grasshopper
 It is best to prepare for the days of necessity
 The hare and turtle
 Slow and steady wins the race
 The Stag at the Pool
 A stag, gazing at his reflection in a pool, remarked, “What glorious antlers
I have. But my legs are so skinny!” At that moment the stag heard a pack
of hunters and hounds approaching. His long legs helped him flee into a
thick wood, but his antlers became entangled in the branches. Struggle as
he might, he was trapped – and the hounds and hunters closed in.
 We often make much of the ornamental and despise the useful.
 The Young Crab and her Mother
  A mother crab was annoyed at her daughter’s clumsy way of walking
sideways and told her to walk forwards.
 Obediently the daughter agreed but asked that her mother show her
how. The mother began to walk, then realized that she too, was walking
sideways.
 Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example.
 The fox and the goat
 The goat was innocent enough to understand the shrewdness of the fox
and did as the fox said and helped him get out of the well.while
walkingaway, the fox sai” had you been intelligent enough,you would
never have got in without seeing how to get out
 Look before you leap
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