Western Maine
Tools for Learning
Workshop

Aesop Connections

I. Connectivity & Icebreaker

Icebreaker Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/icebreaker.html
Trust Building Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/trustbuilding.html
Community Building Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/communitybuilding.html
Team Building Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/teambuilding.html
Listening Skills Resources   http://region6.mainelearns.org/listeningskills.html
Active Listening Resources   http://region6.mainelearns.org/activelistening.html
Diversity Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/Diversity.html
Learning Styles Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/LearningStyles.html
KWL  http://region6.mainelearns.org/kwl.html

II.  Aesop In the Afternoon by Albert Cullum  http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/touchofgreatness/teacher.html

III.  Resources

UMass: Aesop's Fables
http://www.umass.edu/aesop/index.php

PagebyPageBooks:  Aesop's Fables
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Aesop/Aesops_Fables/

Fables
http://www.literature.org/authors/aesop/fables/

eText: Fables
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AesFabl.html

The Internet Classics Archive: Aesop's Fables
http://classics.mit.edu/Aesop/fab.html

Aesop's Fables WebQuest
http://coe.nevada.edu/jbanales/webquest/

Dusklight: Aesop's Fables
http://www.dusklight.com/aesop/

Tomsdomain: Aesop's Fables
http://tomsdomain.com/aesop/aesopmain.htm

Aesop's ABC
http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/index.html

ReadingAtoZ: Aesop Lesson Plans
http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/levels/m/aesopsfablesm.html

Aesop's Fables: I have many fables to tell . . .
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/aesop.htm

Wikipedia:  Aesop Fables
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop's_Fables

4 to 40:  Aesop
http://www.4to40.com/folktales/fabledefault.htm

Animated Fables
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/aesop/index.html

Aesop's Fables Index
http://www.mcwdn.org/fables/fabindex.html

Project Gutenburg: Aesop's Fables
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/21

Aesop's Fables
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/index.htm

StoryTymes Aesop
http://www.childclassics.com/

Fables, Fairy Tales, Stories and Nursery Rhymes
http://www.ivyjoy.com/fables/

AesopFables
http://www.aesopsfables.net/

EducationWorld:  Critical Thinking with Fables New and Old
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/dailylp/dailylp/dailylp003.shtml

AESOP - Ancient Fabler & Storyteller
http://www.duboislc.net/read/Aesop/Aesop.html

Maine MARVEL on Aesop
http://libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/



IV. Working with Aesop

EDSITEment: Aesop Lesson Plan
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=240

Book Report Resources
http://region6.mainelearns.org/bookreport.html

Writing Reports
http://region6.mainelearns.org/writingprompts.html

Children's Literature Resources
http://region6.mainelearns.org/childrenlit.html

Web-based Collaborative Word Processors
http://region6.mainelearns.org/collaboratewp.html

Mrs. Sunda's Third Grade Class:  Original Fables Inspired by Aesop
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/fable/fable.htm

Aesop's Fables Updated
http://www.catawba.k12.nc.us/webquest/lundeen/Aesop-page.html

Web English Teacher - Aesop's Fables
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/aesop.html

Aesop's Fables '2001 WebQuest
http://www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/english/edservices/pedresources/webquest/aesop/index.html

Up-to-Date Aesop @ EducationWorld
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/02/lp279-03.shtml

ARTSEDGE: Masks and Aesop's Fables
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3617/

ARTSEDGE:; Comparing and Contrasting Fables
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2229/

ARTSEDGE:  Writing an Original Fable
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2219/

Aesop's Fables - Activities
http://www.mcwdn.org/fables/aesop.html

Sound Studio



V.  Reflection and Closing


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