Fable summarizing in English.

1. Welcome to our
English Class!

2. Directions:
Guess the title of the Fable based
on the following pictures.

6. Summarizing a Fable

7. Fable
- is a short story, often with animals
as characters
- conveys a moral or a lesson

8. What does summary mean?
- using few words to give the most
important information about something

9. FABLE
Event
Section
Reaction
Section
Outcome
Section

10.  STEPS
1. Pick up the episodes leading up to the
moral of the fable. Be sure to mention
the event, the reaction, and the outcome.

11.  STEPS
2. Put together the episodes to come up
with a tentative summary of the fable.

12.  STEPS
3. Compress the episodes to shorten the
summary of the fable further.

13. Directions:
Read the fable below entitled “The
Fairly Intelligent Fly” and
summarize it.

14. The Fairly Intelligent Fly
By James Thurber

15. A large spider in an old house
built a beautiful web to catch flies.
Every time a fly landed on the web
and was entangled in it, the spider
devoured him, so that when another
fly came along, he would think that
the web was a safe and quiet place in
which to rest.

16. One day a fairly intelligent fly
buzzed around above the web so
long without alighting that the spider
appeared and said, "Come on
down." But the fly was too clever for
him and said, "I never alight where I
don't see other flies and I don't see
other flies in your house."

17. So he flew away until he came
to a place where there were a great
many other flies. He was about to settle
down among them when a bee buzzed
up and said, "Hold it, that's flypaper. All
those flies are trapped." "Don't be silly,"
said the fly, “They're dancing." So he
settled down and became stuck to the
flypaper with all the other flies.

18. The Fairly Intelligent Fly
By James Thurber
(A Summary)

19. A large spider built its web in an old house. It
quickly ate all flies that entangled in the web. Yet, one
day, it could not convince a fairly intelligent fly to alight
in its web. He said that he never alight when he doesn't
see other flies.
Thus, he flew away, until he reached a place
where he saw many other flies. He was about to settle
down when a bee stopped him by saying that the place
where the other flies are is a flypaper and that those
flies are trapped.
However, the intelligent fly replied that those
flies are dancing, and then he settled down. He was
stuck to the flypaper just like the other flies.

20. What lesson can we get
from the story?

21. There is no safety in numbers.
We have to learn to listen to others.

22. Summarizing a Fable