Why wouldn't Juno want to give a peacock the voice of a nightingale? After reading Aesop's fable "The Peacock and Juno," individuals learn to be content with what they have because perfection is unattainable. The passage comes with an audio recording and a paired activity that prompts learners to identify different parts of the story to summarize the text.

Concepts

plot summary, aesop's fables, explanatory writing, active reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the activity as pre-writing to assign a summary of the fable
• Research Juno and have writers construct a fable of their own using her as a character

Classroom Considerations

• Make copies of the identifying parts of the plot before class
• Has a readability score of 6.7
  

Pros

• Because the fable is only 54 words long, it allows for more skills practice in instructional time
• The online format is easy to navigate and easily accessible

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.5.2 RL.6.2 RL.7.2 RL.8.2