Take the bull by its horns with an audio retelling of Aesop's fable "The Hart in the Ox-Stall." Part of a larger set, the resource contains an audiobook recording and text passage. After listening to the story, class members then identify the moral of the story with textual evidence.

Concepts

argumentative writing, literary analysis, literary themes, textual evidence, aesop's fables, active reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the activity from the lesson to inspire a class debate
• As a class, discuss how one story yields multiple themes

Classroom Considerations

• Readability score is a 6.0 
• Story duration is 1:02

Pros

• Online format is easy to navigate and clear
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

W.5.2.a W.6.2.a W.7.2.a W.8.2.a