Study Guide for Leap, Frog (click here for a printable PDF version)
Click to see a newspaper story written about California red-legged frogs - (the same kind Edward and Charley used to win the jumping-frog contest with!). The news story is taken from The San Francisco Chronicle, July 25, 2002. After you read it, answer the following questions:*
1. What is the problem faced by the red-legged frogs? (hint: see paragraph one)
2. What are the reasons this problem came about? (hint: there are four reasons - see paragraph three)
3. Does this news story bring good news or bad news for the red-legged frog? Explain your answer.
*By the way, there are some pretty hard words in the news story about the red-legged frog. Look at the list below. Do you know the meaning of all these words? If you don’t, you might want to look them up before you read the story:
amphibian / celebrated / consumption / contamination / decree / depleted / encroachment / endangered / environmentalists / pesticide / predator
Related Topics:
Who is Mark Twain?
Where is Calaveras County?
What is the US Fish and Wildlife Service? the Sierra Club? the Jumping Frog Institute? the Environmental Protection Agency? the Endangered Species Act? “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"?
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