Read the full story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.”
Common Core Objectives
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2
Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.
Content Summary for Teachers
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
In “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” the narrator goes to a mining camp called Angel’s Camp in the West, which was then known as the frontier, in order to find out...