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The document discusses three fables and asks the reader to determine the moral or theme of each story. The fables are about a grasshopper and an ant, a monkey and cookies, and a monkey giving advice to his sons with sticks. The reader must explain how their interpretation of the moral relates back to each story.

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Tarea Reading

The document discusses three fables and asks the reader to determine the moral or theme of each story. The fables are about a grasshopper and an ant, a monkey and cookies, and a monkey giving advice to his sons with sticks. The reader must explain how their interpretation of the moral relates back to each story.

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Name: ________________________

Understanding Theme with Fables


In Aesop’s fables, the moral of the story (theme) is written in the last line. In the following fables, the
last line or theme has been removed. I have also made some slight changes to the originals.
Directions: Determine the moral or theme of these fables and explain your interpretations.
1. The Ant and the Grasshopper
In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's
content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest. "Why
not come and chat with me," said the Grasshopper, "instead of toiling and moiling in that way?" "I am
helping to lay up food for the winter," said the Ant, "and recommend you to do the same." "Why bother
about winter?" said the Grasshopper; we have got plenty of food at present." But the Ant went on its
way and continued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper had no food and found itself dying
of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing every day corn and grain from the stores they had collected
in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew.

What did the Grasshopper learn? _________________________________________________________

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Explain how your answer relates to the story: _______________________________________________

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2. The Monkey and the Cookies
A monkey put his hand into a jar of cookies. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but
when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the cookie jar.
Unwilling to lose the cookies, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly
lamented his disappointment.

What is the moral of the story?___________________________________________________________

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Explain how your answer relates to the story: _______________________________________________

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3. The Bundle of Sticks
An old monkey on the point of death summoned his sons around him to give them some parting
advice. He ordered them to bring in a bundle of sticks, and said to his eldest son: "Break it." The son
strained and strained, but with all his efforts was unable to break the sticks. The other sons also tried,
but none of them was successful. "Untie the bundle," said the father, "and each of you take a stick."
When they had done so, he called out to them: "Now, break," and each stick was easily broken. "You
see my meaning," said their father.

What was the father’s meaning? _________________________________________________________


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Explain how your answer relates to the story: _______________________________________________

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