3-2: Aesop

Reading 3-2: Aesop

Aesop was a slave from ancient Greece. His ability to tell stories helped him become a free man. He is still famous for the short stories that he told. His short stories are called fablesbecause they have a lesson (or moral) at the end. Many of these fables have animals that think and talk like humans. Although Aesop is the author, he never wrote anything. He told the stories to other people. The stories were spoken from person to person until finally someone wrote the stories.

Read the fable below:

Ex.

The Four Bulls and the Lion by Aesop

A lion used to walk around a field where four bulls lived. The lion tried to attack the bulls but they turned so they looked in different directions: north, east, west, and south. Whichever way the lion approached them, he met the horns of a bull.  One day the bulls had an argument and they all walked to a different corner of the field. The lion ate them one by one.

Moral: United we stand, divided we fall.

Define the words in the vocabulary list and read the fable again.