Aesop’s Fables, “The Fox and The Grapes” and “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”:

Go to this website to view beautifully illustrated versions of these and other fables: Aesop’s Fables (Links to an external site.)

http://read.gov/aesop/001.html

Write your own fable modeled after Aesops. Choose an animal and an episode that will reveal something about human behavior. As a twist on this, you can take on the point of view of a character already in one of the fables, and rewrite it from their point of view.