Fables and Tall Tales Teaching Aids, 2000

Item

Identifier: CFC2020.0143

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

2000

Creator

Learning Centers Club; The Education Center (Organization)

Extent

1.75 Linear Feet ; 11" x 17"

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Cataloguing this set of teacher's aids may set a record in this collection, as it has waited for eight years! What I now find inside the box are three envelopes and two posters, each about 11" x 17". Two of the three envelopes seem to offer helps in math and writing. A third envelope is titled "Presenting the Fable Fella." It contains eight laminated cards with a traditional fable on one side and "Aesop's Fable Activities" on the other. A set of six smaller cards has a fable on one side and a task related to particular words on the other, like "Use six of these words in a poem that the foolish, proud crow wrote about himself." The first poster, "Let the Lion Loose," uses LM to have students compose the picture of the lion by solving a math problem on the back of a card. A correct answer allows that card to become a portion of the poster's picture of the netted lion, only now without the restraining ropes. Luckily for the teacher, there is an answer key! The second poster -- "Watch Out For The Wolf!" -- has students deciding whether a given card is a statement, command, question, or exclamation. Correct answers have a player advancing through the sheep to get to the finish.