How does trust grow between friends, and why is it so important? Aesop's 142-word fable "The Two Fellows and the Bear," addresses the question and challenges readers to think about whether they should trust the friends in their lives. To finish the resource that is part of a larger set of fables, individuals complete a post-reading research activity that investigates bear attacks and presents different scenarios to respond to with their writing.

Concepts

aesop's fables, trust, opinion writing

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• To extend material, use a QFT to generate questions for a SOLE activity about bears and bear attacks 
• Before reading, talk about trust: How do you earn it? How is it maintained? Why is trust so important in a relationship?

Classroom Considerations

• Be sure recording is audible to all students if playing during class
  

Pros

• Creative and engaging activity meets the rigor of the Common Core standards as well as the passage, which scored a 5.6 on the Flesch-Kincaid readability scale
• Cite This! feature provides MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations of the resource

Cons

• None

Common Core

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