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Aesop's fables - a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop

allegory, apologue, parable, fable - a short moral story (often with animal characters)

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Elva and the students read and discussed the moral of stories in Aesops Fables. Elva then assigned them a drawing project, which involved the students drawing a scene from their favorite fable.

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She takes the kernels of some of Aesops fables and transports them to the plains of southern Africa and by her assured touch makes us believe that this was always their true home.

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