The Ant and the Cricket

What is a fable?

• Story without a moral

• With animals as characters that conveys a moral

• Conveys a moral

• A novel

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.4

What was the young cricket accustomed to do?

• to eat

• to dance

• to work

• to sing

When was the cricket more happy?

• summer and spring

• winter

• not at all

• autumn

Where is the poem adapted from?

• Panchathanthra

• Ruskin Bond's works

• Aesop's Fables

• Shakespearean sonnets

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CCSS.RL.8.9

What made the cricket bold?

• Starvation and famine

• Rain

• Snow

• Habit of singing

What principle does the ant follow?

• save nothing

• Never borrow never lend

• sang day and night

• no principle

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.W.8.9A

What did the ant ask the cricket to do?

• to be happy

• to go away

• to sing

• to dance the winter away

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

Whom does the poet compare the lazy cricket to?

• Lazy people

• Hardworking people

• Ant

• Crow

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CCSS.RL.8.1

Synonym of quoth

• tell

• eat

• drink

• said

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CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.8.4B

Antonym of borrow

• found

• lend

• see

• grant

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CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.L.8.5C