Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Allegory
This is a glossary entry for the term "Allegory" including multiple definitions for the term, links to other figures of speech, links to more information, and examples.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Folk Tales [Pdf]
A very brief organizer in which students can list examples from their current reading selection which represent elements from the folk tale, such as the supernatural, good over evil, and moral lessons.
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Fox and the Grapes"
Two traditional retellings of Aesop's fable "The Fox and the Grapes." The first has literal illustrations of the original fable. The second tells the same story, but has illustrations that give the story a modern setting and characters...
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts: Aesop's Fables: "The Fox and the Stork"
Read two versions of Aesop's fable "The Fox and the Story." Both versions have the same text, but one has traditional illustrations while the other provides a modern interpretation through the illustrations.
Other
Biography Base: Aesop Biography
This is a biography of Aesop, the supposed author of Aesop's Fables, a collection of folktales that use talking animals to teach morals or lessons about life. It also provides of some of his fables.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit: American Romanticism: Nathaniel Hawthorne
This lesson focuses on Nathaniel Hawthorne and his short story "The Minister's Black Veil." It features background information about Hawthorne and the short story, reading questions, the five stages of grief, a link to the text, and a...
Other
Drug Free America Foundation
This resource covers all illegal drugs and provides information on health risks, drugs in the workplace, case stories, moral and spiritual issues, state drug initiatives, and a kids section.
Brown University
Brown University: The Decameron Project
Few great books like the Decameron have shaped our very notion of storytelling and its crucial role in the negotiation and production of shared social and cultural values. In its hundred stories, shared in ten days by ten young people...
Other
Yesterday's Classics: Look Inside: Babbitt: Jakata Tales [Pdf]
Read two fables from Ellen C. Babbitt's Jakata Tales, a classic of children's literature that retells stories, from sacred Buddhist literature, of the Buddha's past lives. Jakata stories, full of the quaint humor, teach many different...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Half Hours With the Little Ones by N. T. Langridge
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Half Hours with the Little Ones by N. T. Langridge (1861), a collection of half-hour stories with moral lessons.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Theme Worksheets
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying themes in short stories and in fables. Nine different worksheets and a PowerPoint lesson are available to help reinforce the concept of theme.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Teaching With Pourquoi Tales
This site features activities that revolve around "Teaching With Pourquoi Tales." Young scholars will learn more about these types of old legends that deal with the natural world.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Fable
This is an encyclopedia entry for the word "Fable." It defines the term, explains its characteristics, provides background including Aseop's Fables and those from various countries, and offers a list of fabulists and their works.
Other
Frog Fables and Parables
All these fables feature frogs as their main characters. Like all fables, they each have a message about life.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Financial Fairy Tales
[Free Registration/Login Required] A simple presentation of an engaging fairy story called The Last Gold Coin with messages about financial management that are clear morals from the tale.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Amelia and the Dwarfs" by Juliana Horatia Ewing
This is the text of the short story "Amelia and the Dwarfs" by Juliana Horatia Ewing, a pleasant tale, with a good moral in the inside of it.
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: Carthage (Joseph Smith Murder) Trial (1845)
One of the most consequential crimes in American history occurred on a summer day in 1844 when a mob stormed a jail in Carthage, Illinois and murdered Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum. The killing of Joseph Smith, the charismatic...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Fable and Trickster Tales Around the World
The lessons presented in this website "introduce children to folk tales" and how these folktales are changed and affected by generational and cultural values. Includes several links to further related information on folktales, fables,...