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Grade 5 · English
Rip Van Winkle
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Poem: The Lazy Frog + Prose: Rip Van Winkle — fantasy, time and laziness
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1
Fill in the blanks about 'The Lazy Frog' poem!
The frog has an for every bit of laziness.
The frog sits all day on a in the
The frog spends its time and doing nothing.
pond
does not work
sunbathing
The frog does not catch like other frogs.
The frog in the poem is described as .
does not work
lazy
sunbathing
2
Sort these events from 'Rip Van Winkle' — did they happen BEFORE he fell asleep or AFTER he woke up?
1Rip drinks the strangers' drink and falls asleep.
2The village has completely changed around him.
3Rip discovers 20 years have passed.
4No one in the village recognises Rip.
5He meets mysterious men playing ninepins.
6Rip wakes up with a long white beard.
7His wife used to scold him for being lazy.
8Rip wanders into the Catskill Mountains.
Before Rip fell asleep
write sentence numbers here
After Rip woke up
write sentence numbers here
3
Fill in the correct word from 'Rip Van Winkle'!
When Rip woke up, he had a long white .
Catskill Mountains
mysterious
beard
The main character of the story is .
Rip Van Winkle
mysterious
ninepins
'Rip Van Winkle' was written by .
Washington Irving
beard
20 years
Rip slept for without knowing it.
20 years
Catskill Mountains
ninepins
The men were playing .
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
ninepins
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