Can I Substitute Classic Myths for....

You really need to use Classic Myths to Read Aloud. It is a required book because all the questions and vocabulary words are taken from it. Sorry, this is one you really shouldn't substitute unless you are prepared to do lots of scrambling.

Each collective myth book not only has different selections, but different versions as well. You would also be missing one of the best things about the Classic Myths book - the author gives a review at the end of each myth on the words that have come to us (that we use every day) from that myth. This was one of the reasons this book was chosen - none of the other books offer this benefit. Russell also gives pronunciations for the difficult names and places covered in each myth.

Aesop's Fables Chart

www.imelville.com/images/FableChart.xls Blank Chart for Aesop's Fable Study

Aesops Fables - online

Here are some Aesop URLs you might find helpful:

http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/2768/cha017.html

http://www.pitara.com/folktales/aesops

http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/library/bl/bl_text_aes

op.htm

http://www.gohotline.com/kids/aesop5.asp

http://egnatia.ee.auth.gr/~bchr/books/Aesop/aesop.html

http://www.angelfire.com/me2/fablefun/

http://www.umass.edu/aesop/

http://www.home.aone.net.au/stories/doc/fables.htm

http://www.literature.org/authors/aesop/fables/

http://www.aalbc.com/Aesops_Fables.htm

http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/
http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/mice.html

Here's a black and white illustration of Aesop's Fable, "The Council of
Mice,"
1969, courtesy of the artist (Jacob Lawrence) and Francine Seders Gallery
http://www.tfaoi.com/am/1am/1am315.jpg

And a modern cartoon type illustration of "The Mice in Council"
http://www.community-mine.com/illustration/animals/mice_in_council.htm

This is an oil painting of Aesop:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4649/aesop.jpg
Diego VELAZQUEZ: Aesop (c. 1639-40)
Oil on canvas, 70 1/2 x 37 in. (179 x 94 cm.) Museo del Prado, Madrid, No.
1207



I had to share these great sites for Aesop's Fables:
http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/ Has 655 fables online, some with
illustrations and some with audio versions.
http://www.hipark.austin.isd.tenet.edu/mythology/aesop_wolf.html Has "The
Boy who cried Wolf" as a play.
http://www.umass.edu/aesop/index.html Has several fables illustrated by art
students at the University of Massachusetts (I'd stick to the traditional
versions rather than their modern versions!).



We do not specify which fables book to buy because so many people have books of fables and fairy tales in their homes already. If you look on page 118 in the book, there are two books that I list that include all the fables that are covered in the Ancient Greece unit. In parentheses there, I tell you that all the fables in this unit are included in these two books. For your convenience, I will list them here:

(1) Aesop. Aesop's Fables. New York: Exeter Books, 1987.
(2) Ash, Russell and Bernard Higton (compilers). Aesop's Fables. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990.

I really recommend that you go to the library and check out a few books of fables and I am sure that between two or three of them, you will find everything you need.

I am soooo glad to hear that everything is going so well with your learning adventure!

Dorian



I just printed my Aesop's Fables off the interenet.Saves money!!

Here are a few web sites for Aesop's Fables...

http://www139.pair.com/read/Aesop/Aesops_Fables/

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/2768/cha.html