Introduction to Expository Writing (Read pgs. 313-317 in WP)
Grammar Review on Purdue Owl-Punctuation
1. Go to the website: The AESOP for Children with original pictures by MILO Winter
2. Read the following 4 fables:
The Lion and the Mouse*The Ants and the Grasshopper * The Crow and the Pitcher *The Rat and the Elephant*
- Answer the following questions in a paragraph about 2 of the fables (separately of course)...
- What is the issue in this fable?
- What audience or situation do you believe this fable is written for?
- What do you think is the main idea of this fable?
- How well do you think the writer presented the information and/or dilemma in this fable?
- What is interesting about the language used in this fable?
- What is the author's attitude about the subject? (admiring, mocking, sincere etc.)
- Overall, what is your opinion about the moral in presented in this fable?
HW: Read "A Few Too Many" by Joan Acorella pg. 319, "The Ugly Truth about Beauty" by Dave Berry pg. 341 and "The Insufficiency of Honesty" by Steven L. Carter pg. 362 "What You Don't Know Makes Your Nervous" by Daniel Gilbert pg. 417
Attachment:- Aesop fables.rar