Apr 15 Students were introduced to fables and answered questions about fables. They read a short fable and wrote the moral or lesson. 

Reviewed summarizing with students and they summarized a fable using a graphic organizer; they then wrote the moral of the fable in their own words.

Students planned their own fable using a story map and then wrote their fable with beginnig, middle and end as well as moral of their fable.

A creative writing prompt on "living underwater" was assigned as homework.