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Entry Activity

Are you familiar


with book of this
type ?

Can you narrate


any fable?
A fable is a
traditional short
narrative which
teaches a moral
lesson usually with
animals or birds as
characters .
FABLE
THE MICE THAT ET THE
E!E"HA#T $%EE Transalated by
Arthur & %yder
THE MICE THAT ET THE
E!E"HA#T $%EE Transalated by
Arthur & %yder

Translated by Arthur & %yder


Arthur &. %yder

Arthur &illiam %yder was a professor of


anskrit at the 'niversity of California(
)erkeley. He is best known for translatin* a
number of anskrit works into En*lish(
includin* the "anchatantra and the )ha*avad
+ita.

Born:March ,( -,..(0berlin( 0hio( 'nited


tates

Died:March 1-( -23,

Education:Humboldt 'niversity of
)erlin(Harvard 'niversity('niversity of !eip4i*
AFTER A FEW MONTHS LOUD AND SAD HOWLS
FILLED THE JUNGLE. THE KING ELEPHANT HAD BEEN
TRAPPED. A HUNTER HAD COME TO CATCH THEM SO
NONE OF THE ELEPHANTS COULD GO THERE.
THE MICE SAID, "IT'S TIME TO PROVE OUR
FRIENDSHIP, WE WILL FREE THE ELEPHANT."
SO THEY QUIETLY WENT TO THE KING
ELEPHANT AND CHEWED THROUGH THE ROPES
THAT TIED HIM UP.
AS TH EY W ERE SM ALL N O O N E SAW TH EM
TH ERE. AT LAST TH E KIN G ELEPH AN T W AS
FREE, AN D H E RAN H O M E W ITH TH E M ICE.
TH E M ICE AN D ELEPH AN TS IN TH AT
JU N G LE H AE H ELPED EACH O TH ER O FTEN
EER SIN CE. TH EY ARE G O O D FRIEN D S.
N EW W O RD S
Herd 5 +roup of animals
stayin* to*ether
C0#6E#TI0# 5 Meetin*
DRAGGED : Pull alone w ith
force
TRAPPERS : A person w ho
catches anim als
GNAW ED : Scratch aw ay w ith
teeth
Scafolding Questions

Who translated the Story

Where does the story ha!!en

Who li"ed there

What #as the re$uest o% &ice

What re!lay did ele!hant gi"e

Who hel! ele!hant

What #as the &oral o% this


story
D i!c"#r!$ C"n!tr#cti"n

&hat would be the thou*hts of the


Elephant kin* as he and his friends
were cau*ht in the trap and later tied
to stout trees with ropes ?
Teachers Version

&hat a hame 7 &e should have


been more careful. As the leader I
should have warned my friends
about the dan*er. &hat mi*ht they
think about me? &e should not have
come this way we chose this path
because we did not want to kill the
mice .oh( my +od7 (we have no
means of deliverance e8cept those
mice. I should at once inform them of
our trouble. They would surely set us
free.
A!!i%n& $nt

&rite a modern fable as


human as character
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