Introducing Christian Virtues Using Aesop's Fables: A Self-Study Workbook for Children Grade level 3-6

Title

en_US Introducing Christian Virtues Using Aesop's Fables: A Self-Study Workbook for Children Grade level 3-6

Description

en_US Maggie Rayner

Creator

en_US Rayner, Maggie See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US McLaughlin, Shane

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:45Z

en_US 2012-05

en_US 2001

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

Abstract

en_US I am surprised that I am only now, eleven years later, encountering this spiral-bound private publication devoted to home-schooling children about virtues through the use of fables. It has 108 pages 8½ x 11 in size. The author takes thirty Christian virtues and matches each with two fables, one page for each. There are some multiple-choice questions along the way. The fables are used both positively and negatively. Thus the first virtue is attentiveness; fables used are those of the sick stag whose guests ate away his grass and MM. Benevolence uses AD as a positive story and The Wolf and the Horse as a negative. In that fable, the wolf offers the horse oats that are neither his nor of interest to him. Boldness uses The Boy and the Nettle and The Hunter and the Woodsman, where the hunter has to declare that he is seeking not the lion, but the lion's tracks! Next, to my surprise, is chastity, for which the author uses The Wolf and the Goat and The Wolf and the Lion. In the former, the wolf is inviting the goat down from its safe precipice. In the latter, the wolf complains that the lion has stolen what belongs to the wolf, who of course stole it in the first place. The virtues are thus done alphabetically. After some 60 pages of virtues and fables, there are two pages each on the seven supreme (cardinal and theological) virtues. Final elements include an answer key, extension assignments, extension activities, a reading list, and a glossary. I will use this as I prepare my fable video lectures this summer!

Identifier

en_US 7810 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83065

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Maggie Rayner

en_US Delta, BC

Subject

en_US BJ1631.R39 2001 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole