Before completing this exercise, please look over the larger assignment on rhetorical exercises, here. [1] This assignment description is also linked to your Course Description under Grade Breakdown [2]. The fable exercise is due by class time on TH, Jan 24.

Assignment:
Select one of Aesop's fables [3] and paste it (or its url) into your post along with its stated moral. Then either (1) invent your own fable according to that same abstract story pattern, retelling the fable using new content and adding your own moral tag (or keeping the old one), or (2) expand the short fable into a longer narrative by turning indirect speech into direct speech (quoted dialogue), by adding descriptive details about characters, action, setting, etc. (as does the example here [4]), or by both.