Biblical Worldview For Teachers As Models In Aesop's Fables '

Here is a classic story, one of the Aesop’s Fables. The fables taught with Biblical reasoning questions are used as models to help lay a solid foundation for future writing skills from the Biblical worldview. They provide clear-cut examples for finding the theme, that is the moral, and they also relate a literary piece to your student’s life. The following points presented in bold are distinctly Biblical worldview. Note that this includes giving definitions, and comparing and contrasting things. There are also notes throughout the curriculum exclusively for the teachers to help explain the perspective of Biblical classical education.

LITERATURE I Read The Tortoise and the Hare. Recommended reading: is Aesop’s Fables retold by Tom Paxton.
Sometimes they are the ones who had trouble doing their work in school. Since they had to work extra hard, and reason through relationships more in order to understand them, they can now do that same thing with their students. They know how to encourage the students to not give up. They tend to have more patience with their students. The teachers who had an easy time in school may not be willing to take the time to explain things in different ways. They may not have learned the patience it takes to teach all kinds of students. Moral: Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. Don’t assume that something will happen a certain way. The hare had a lot of pride in himself. This kind of pride means you think more of yourself than you should; you think you are the best and are above others because you can do something someone else can’t do. Because the hare had the ability to run fast, he thought he would easily win. Just because someone has the ability to do something doesn’t mean he will apply himself, or use his ability at all, or use it in the right way (be wise). The Bible says, in Proverbs 16:18, Pride cometh before a fall. Moral: Keep on keeping on. We can think of the tortoise as humble – not thinking that he was better than the hare. We can think of him as accepting himself the way God made him. He couldn’t move