A Fable for Tomorrow
I. Warm-up:
1. Definition: What’s a fable?
2. Experience sharing:
Ask students to tell a fable they
remember and tell what lesson
they have learned from it.
II. Presenting the text
1. Silent Reading
2. Comprehension questions
3. Analyzing the Text
4. Passages in Focus:
Identifying the adjectives and rhetorical
techniques employed to describe the place
(adjectives: deserted, moribund; rhetorical
techniques: evil spell, a shadow of death)
III. Connecting Reading with
Writing
• 1. Ask students to think about a place they are familiar
with, which used to be a beautiful, ideal, or perfect
place, or even a paradise. However, something terrible
happened to it and turned it into a (negative)
place.
• 2. Ask students to write a draft and use at least 5
adjectives in their essay to give vivid descriptions
about what happened to the once ideal place.
• 3. Ask students to give opinion about how they feel
about the change.
• 4. Ask students to come up with suggestions about
how to help the place in danger.