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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects appendix b text exemplars and sample performance tasks

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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects exemplars of reading text complexity quality and range sample performance tasks related to core standards selecting text exemplars the following text samples primarily serve to exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the standards require all students in a given grade band to engage with additionally they are suggestive of the breadth of texts that students should encounter in the text types required by the standards the choices should serve as useful guideposts in helping educators select texts of similar complexity quality and range for their own classrooms they expressly do not represent a partial or complete reading list the process of text selection was guided by the following criteria · complexity appendix a describes in detail a three-part model of measuring text complexity based on qualitative and quantitative indices of inherent text difficulty balanced with educators professional judgment in matching readers and texts in light of particular tasks in selecting texts to serve as exemplars the work group began by soliciting contributions from teachers educational leaders and researchers who have experience working with students in the grades for which the texts have been selected these contributors were asked to recommend texts that they or their colleagues have used successfully with students in a given grade band the work group made final selections based in part on whether qualitative and quantitative measures indicated that the recommended texts were of sufficient complexity for the grade band for those types of texts particularly poetry and multimedia sources for which these measures are not as well suited professional judgment necessarily played a greater role in selection quality while it is possible to have high-complexity texts of low inherent quality the work group solicited only texts of recognized value from the pool of submissions gathered from outside contributors the work group selected classic or historically significant texts as well as contemporary works of comparable literary merit cultural significance and rich content range after identifying texts of appropriate complexity and quality the work group applied other criteria to ensure that the samples presented in each band represented as broad a range of sufficiently complex highquality texts as possible among the factors considered were initial publication date authorship and subject matter · · copyright and permissions for those exemplar texts not in the public domain we secured permissions and in some cases employed a conservative interpretation of fair use which allows limited partial use of copyrighted text for a nonprofit educational purpose as long as that purpose does not impair the rights holder s ability to seek a fair return for his or her work in instances where we could not employ fair use and have been unable to secure permission we have listed a title without providing an excerpt thus some short texts are not excerpted here as even short passages from them would constitute a substantial portion of the entire work in addition illustrations and other graphics in texts are generally not reproduced here such visual elements are particularly important in texts for the youngest students and in many informational texts for readers of all ages using the qualitative criteria outlined in appendix a the work group considered the importance and complexity of graphical elements when placing texts in bands when excerpts appear they serve only as stand-ins for the full text the standards require that students engage with appropriately complex literary and informational works such complexity is best found in whole texts rather than passages from such texts please note that these texts are included solely as exemplars in support of the standards any additional use of those texts that are not in the public domain such as for classroom use or curriculum development requires independent permission from the rights holders the texts may not be copied or distributed in any way other than as part of the overall common core state standards initiative documents sample performance tasks the text exemplars are supplemented by brief performance tasks that further clarify the meaning of the standards these sample tasks illustrate specifically the application of the standards to texts of sufficient complexity quality and range relevant reading standards are noted in brackets following each task and the words in italics in the task reflect the wording of the reading standard itself individual grade-specific reading standards are identified by their strand grade and number so that ri.4.3 for example stands for reading informational text grade 4 standard 3 appendix b 2

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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects how to read this document the materials that follow are divided into text complexity grade bands as defined by the standards k­1 2­3 4­5 6­8 9­10 and 11­ccr each band s exemplars are divided into text types matching those required in the standards for a given grade k­5 exemplars are separated into stories poetry and informational texts as well as read-aloud texts in kindergarten through grade 3 the 6­ccr exemplars are divided into english language arts ela history/social studies and science mathematics and technical subjects with the ela texts further subdivided into stories drama poetry and informational texts the history/social studies texts also include some arts-related texts citations introduce each excerpt and additional citations are included for texts not excerpted in the appendix within each grade band and after each text type sample performance tasks are included for select texts media texts selected excerpts are accompanied by annotated links to related media texts freely available online at the time of the publication of this document appendix b 3

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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects table of contents k­1 text exemplars 14 stories 14 minarik else holmelund little bear 14 eastman p d are you my mother 15 seuss dr green eggs and ham 15 lopshire robert put me in the zoo 15 lobel arnold frog and toad together 15 lobel arnold owl at home 16 depaola tomie pancakes for breakfast 17 arnold tedd hi fly guy 17 poetry 17 anonymous as i was going to st ives 17 rossetti christina mix a pancake 17 fyleman rose singing-time 18 milne a a halfway down 18 chute marchette drinking fountain 18 hughes langston poem 18 ciardi john wouldn t you 18 wright richard laughing boy 18 greenfield eloise by myself 18 giovanni nikki covers 18 merriam eve it fell in the city 19 lopez alonzo celebration 19 agee jon two tree toads 19 read-aloud stories 20 baum l frank the wonderful wizard of oz 20 wilder laura ingalls little house in the big woods 20 atwater richard and florence mr popper s penguins 21 jansson tove finn family moomintroll 21 haley gail e a story a story 21 bang molly the paper crane 22 young ed lon po po a red-riding hood story from china 23 garza carmen lomas family pictures 23 mora pat tomás and the library lady 23 henkes kevin kitten s first full moon 24 read-aloud poetry 25 anonymous the fox s foray 25 langstaff john over in the meadow 26 lear edward the owl and the pussycat 27 hughes langston april rain song 27 moss lloyd zin zin zin a violin 27 appendix b 4

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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects sample performance tasks for stories and poetry 28 informational texts 28 bulla clyde robert a tree is a plant 28 aliki my five senses 29 hurd edith thacher starfish 30 aliki a weed is a flower the life of george washington carver 30 crews donald truck 30 hoban tana i read signs 30 reid mary ebeltoft let s find out about ice cream 31 garden helpers national geographic young explorers 31 wind power national geographic young explorers 31 read-aloud informational texts 31 provensen alice and martin the year at maple hill farm 31 gibbons gail fire fire 31 dorros arthur follow the water from brook to ocean 32 rauzon mark and cynthia overbeck bix water water everywhere 33 llewellyn claire earthworms 33 jenkins steve and robin page what do you do with a tail like this 33 pfeffer wendy from seed to pumpkin 33 thomson sarah l amazing whales 34 hodgkins fran and true kelley how people learned to fly 34 sample performance tasks for informational texts 36 grades 2­3 text exemplars 37 stories 37 gannett ruth stiles my father s dragon 37 averill esther the fire cat 37 steig william amos boris 38 shulevitz uri the treasure 38 cameron ann the stories julian tells 38 maclachlan patricia sarah plain and tall 38 rylant cynthia henry and mudge the first book of their adventures 39 stevens janet tops and bottoms 40 lamarche jim the raft 40 rylant cynthia poppleton in winter 40 rylant cynthia the lighthouse family the storm 41 osborne mary pope the one-eyed giant book one of tales from the odyssey 41 silverman erica cowgirl kate and cocoa 42 poetry 43 dickinson emily autumn 43 rossetti christina who has seen the wind 43 millay edna st vincent afternoon on a hill 43 appendix b 5

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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects frost robert stopping by woods on a snowy evening 44 field rachel something told the wild geese 44 hughes langston grandpa s stories 44 jarrell randall a bat is born 44 giovanni nikki knoxville tennessee 44 merriam eve weather 45 soto gary eating while reading 45 read-aloud stories 46 kipling rudyard how the camel got his hump 46 thurber james the thirteen clocks 46 white e b charlotte s web 47 selden george the cricket in times square 47 babbitt natalie the search for delicious 48 curtis christopher paul bud not buddy 48 say allen the sign painter 49 read-aloud poetry 49 lear edward the jumblies 49 browning robert the pied piper of hamelin 51 johnson georgia douglas your world 52 eliot t s the song of the jellicles 52 fleischman paul fireflies 52 sample performance tasks for stories and poetry 53 informational texts 53 aliki a medieval feast 53 gibbons gail from seed to plant 54 milton joyce bats creatures of the night 54 beeler selby throw your tooth on the roof tooth traditions around the world 54 leonard heather art around the world 55 ruffin frances e martin luther king and the march on washington 55 st george judith so you want to be president 55 einspruch andrew crittercam 55 kudlinski kathleen v boy were we wrong about dinosaurs 56 davies nicola bat loves the night 56 floca brian moonshot the flight of apollo 11 56 thomson sarah l where do polar bears live 57 read-aloud informational texts 57 freedman russell lincoln a photobiography 57 coles robert the story of ruby bridges 58 wick walter a drop of water a book of science and wonder 58 smith david j if the world were a village a book about the world s people 59 appendix b aliki ah music 59 6

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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects mark jan the museum book a guide to strange and wonderful collections 59 d aluisio faith what the world eats 60 arnosky jim wild tracks a guide to nature s footprints 60 deedy carmen agra 14 cows for america 60 sample performance tasks for informational texts 61 grades 4­5 text exemplars 63 stories 63 carroll lewis alice s adventures in wonderland 63 burnett frances hodgson the secret garden 63 farley walter the black stallion 64 saint-exupéry antoine de the little prince 64 babbitt natalie tuck everlasting 64 singer isaac bashevis zlateh the goat 64 hamilton virginia m c higgins the great 64 erdrich louise the birchbark house 65 curtis christopher paul bud not buddy 65 lin grace where the mountain meets the moon 66 poetry 66 blake william the echoing green 66 lazarus emma the new colossus 67 thayer ernest lawrence casey at the bat 67 dickinson emily a bird came down the walk 68 sandburg carl fog 69 frost robert dust of snow 69 dahl roald little red riding hood and the wolf 69 nichols grace they were my people 69 mora pat words free as confetti 69 sample performance tasks for stories and poetry 70 informational texts 70 berger melvin discovering mars the amazing story of the red planet 70 carlisle madelyn wood let s investigate marvelously meaningful maps 71 lauber patricia hurricanes earth s mightiest storms 71 otfinoski steve the kid s guide to money earning it saving it spending it growing it sharing it 71 wulffson don toys amazing stories behind some great inventions 71 schleichert elizabeth good pet bad pet 71 kavash e barrie ancient mound builders 71 koscielniak bruce about time a first look at time and clocks 71 banting erinn england the land 72 hakim joy a history of us 72 ruurs margriet my librarian is a camel how books are brought to children around the world 72 simon seymour horses 73 appendix b 7

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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects montgomery sy quest for the tree kangaroo an expedition to the cloud forest of new guinea 73 simon seymour volcanoes 74 nelson kadir we are the ship the story of negro league baseball 74 cutler nellie gonzalez kenya s long dry season 74 hall leslie seeing eye to eye 74 ronan colin a telescopes 75 buckmaster henrietta underground railroad 76 sample performance tasks for informational texts 76 grades 6­8 text exemplars 77 stories 77 alcott louisa may little women 77 twain mark the adventures of tom sawyer 77 l engle madeleine a wrinkle in time 79 cooper susan the dark is rising 79 yep laurence dragonwings 80 taylor mildred d roll of thunder hear my cry 80 hamilton virginia the people could fly 80 paterson katherine the tale of the mandarin ducks 81 cisneros sandra eleven 81 sutcliff rosemary black ships before troy the story of the iliad 81 drama 82 fletcher louise sorry wrong number 82 goodrich frances and albert hackett the diary of anne frank a play 83 poetry 83 longfellow henry wadsworth paul revere s ride 83 whitman walt o captain my captain 85 carroll lewis jabberwocky 85 navajo tradition twelfth song of thunder 86 dickinson emily the railway train 86 yeats william butler the song of wandering aengus 87 frost robert the road not taken 87 sandburg carl chicago 87 hughes langston i too sing america 88 neruda pablo the book of questions 88 soto gary oranges 88 giovanni nikki a poem for my librarian mrs long 88 sample performance tasks for stories drama and poetry 89 informational texts english language arts 90 adams john letter on thomas jefferson 90 douglass frederick narrative of the life of frederick douglass an american slave written by himself 91 appendix b 8

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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects churchill winston blood toil tears and sweat address to parliament on may 13th 1940 91 petry ann harriet tubman conductor on the underground railroad 92 steinbeck john travels with charley in search of america 92 sample performance tasks for informational texts english language arts 93 informational texts history/social studies 93 united states preamble and first amendment to the united states constitution 1787 1791 93 lord walter a night to remember 93 isaacson phillip a short walk through the pyramids and through the world of art 93 murphy jim the great fire 94 greenberg jan and sandra jordan vincent van gogh portrait of an artist 94 partridge elizabeth this land was made for you and me the life and songs of woody guthrie 94 monk linda r words we live by your annotated guide to the constitution 95 freedman russell freedom walkers the story of the montgomery bus boycott 95 informational texts science mathematics and technical subjects 96 macaulay david cathedral the story of its construction 96 mackay donald the building of manhattan 96 enzensberger hans magnus the number devil a mathematical adventure 96 peterson ivars and nancy henderson math trek adventures in the math zone 97 katz john geeks how two lost boys rode the internet out of idaho 97 petroski henry the evolution of the grocery bag 98 geology uxl encyclopedia of science 98 space probe astronomy space from the big bang to the big crunch 98 elementary particles new book of popular science 99 california invasive plant council invasive plant inventory 99 sample performance tasks for informational texts history/social studies science mathematics and technical subjects 100 grades 9­10 text exemplars 101 stories 101 homer the odyssey 101 ovid metamorphoses 101 gogol nikolai the nose 102 de voltaire f a m candide or the optimist 103 turgenev ivan fathers and sons 104 henry o the gift of the magi 104 kafka franz the metamorphosis 105 appendix b 9

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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects steinbeck john the grapes of wrath 105 bradbury ray fahrenheit 451 106 olsen tillie i stand here ironing 106 achebe chinua things fall apart 107 lee harper to kill a mockingbird 107 shaara michael the killer angels 108 tan amy the joy luck club 108 Álvarez julia in the time of the butterflies 108 zusak marcus the book thief 109 drama 110 sophocles oedipus rex 110 shakespeare william the tragedy of macbeth 111 ibsen henrik a doll s house 113 williams tennessee the glass menagerie 114 ionesco eugene rhinoceros 115 fugard athol master harold and the boys 116 poetry 116 shakespeare william sonnet 73 116 donne john song 116 shelley percy bysshe ozymandias 117 poe edgar allan the raven 117 dickinson emily we grow accustomed to the dark 119 houseman a e loveliest of trees 120 johnson james weldon lift every voice and sing 120 cullen countee yet do i marvel 120 auden wystan hugh musée des beaux arts 120 walker alice women 120 baca jimmy santiago i am offering this poem to you 121 sample performance tasks for stories drama and poetry 121 informational texts english language arts 122 henry patrick speech to the second virginia convention 122 washington george farewell address 123 lincoln abraham gettysburg address 123 lincoln abraham second inaugural address 124 roosevelt franklin delano state of the union address 124 hand learned i am an american day address 125 smith margaret chase remarks to the senate in support of a declaration of conscience 125 king jr martin luther letter from birmingham jail 127 king jr martin luther i have a dream address delivered at the march on washington d.c for civil rights on august 28 1963 127 angelou maya i know why the caged bird sings 128 wiesel elie hope despair and memory 128 reagan ronald address to students at moscow state university 128 quindlen anna a quilt of a country 129 appendix b 10

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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects sample performance tasks for informational texts english language arts 129 informational texts history/social studies 130 brown dee bury my heart at wounded knee an indian history of the american west 130 connell evan s son of the morning star custer and the little bighorn 130 gombrich e h the story of art 16th edition 131 kurlansky mark cod a biography of the fish that changed the world 131 haskins jim black blue and gray african americans in the civil war 131 dash joan the longitude prize 132 thompson wendy the illustrated book of great composers 132 mann charles c before columbus the americas of 1491 133 informational texts science mathematics and technical subjects 133 euclid elements 133 cannon annie j classifying the stars 135 walker jearl amusement park physics 136 preston richard the hot zone a terrifying true story 136 devlin keith life by the numbers 137 hoose phillip the race to save lord god bird 137 hakim joy the story of science newton at the center 137 nicastro nicholas circumference eratosthenes and the ancient quest to measure the globe 137 u.s environmental protection agency/u.s department of energy recommended levels of insulation 138 sample performance tasks for informational texts history/social studies science mathematics and technical subjects 138 grades 11­ccr text exemplars 140 stories 140 chaucer geoffrey the canterbury tales 140 de cervantes miguel don quixote 140 austen jane pride and prejudice 142 poe edgar allan the cask of amontillado 143 brontë charlotte jane eyre 144 hawthorne nathaniel the scarlet letter 145 dostoevsky fyodor crime and punishment 146 jewett sarah orne a white heron 146 melville herman billy budd sailor 147 chekhov anton home 148 fitzgerald f scott the great gatsby 149 faulkner william as i lay dying 149 hemingway ernest a farewell to 150 hurston zora neale their eyes were watching god 150 borges jorge luis the garden of forking paths 150 bellow saul the adventures of augie march 151 morrison toni the bluest eye 152 appendix b 11

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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects garcia cristina dreaming in cuban 152 lahiri jhumpa the namesake 152 drama 153 shakespeare william the tragedy of hamlet 153 molière jean-baptiste poquelin tartuffe 153 wilde oscar the importance of being earnest 154 wilder thornton our town a play in three acts 156 miller arthur death of a salesman 156 hansberry lorraine a raisin in the sun 156 soyinka wole death and the king s horseman a play 157 poetry 157 li po a poem of changgan 157 donne john a valediction forbidding mourning 157 wheatley phyllis on being brought from africa to america 158 keats john ode on a grecian urn 158 whitman walt song of myself 159 dickinson emily because i could not stop for death 160 tagore rabindranath song vii 160 eliot t s the love song of j alfred prufrock 160 pound ezra the river merchant s wife a letter 160 frost robert mending wall 161 neruda pablo ode to my suit 162 bishop elizabeth sestina 162 ortiz cofer judith the latin deli an ars poetica 162 dove rita demeter s prayer to hades 163 collins billy man listening to disc 163 sample performance tasks for stories drama and poetry 163 informational texts english language arts 164 paine thomas common sense 164 jefferson thomas the declaration of independence 164 united states the bill of rights amendments one through ten of the united states constitution 166 thoreau henry david walden 167 emerson ralph waldo society and solitude 167 porter horace lee surrenders to grant april 9th 1865 168 chesterton g k the fallacy of success 169 mencken h l the american language 4th edition 169 wright richard black boy 170 orwell george politics and the english language 170 hofstadter richard abraham lincoln and the self-made myth 170 tan amy mother tongue 170 anaya rudolfo take the tortillas out of your poetry 171 appendix b sample performance tasks for informational texts english language arts 171 12

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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects informational texts history/social studies 172 tocqueville alexis de democracy in america 172 declaration of sentiments by the seneca falls conference 172 douglass frederick what to the slave is the fourth of july an address delivered in rochester new york on 5 july 1852 173 an american primer edited by daniel j boorstin 175 lagemann ellen condliffe education 175 mcpherson james m what they fought for 1861­1865 175 the american reader words that moved a nation 2nd edition 175 amar akhil reed america s constitution a biography 176 mccullough david 1776 176 bell julian mirror of the world a new history of art 176 fedviews by the federal reserve bank of san francisco 177 informational texts science mathematics and technical subjects 179 paulos john allen innumeracy mathematical illiteracy and its consequences 179 gladwell malcolm the tipping point how little things can make a big difference 179 tyson neil degrasse gravity in reverse the tale of albert einstein s `greatest blunder 179 calishain tara and rael dornfest google hacks tips tools for smarter searching 2nd edition 180 kane gordon the mysteries of mass 180 fischetti mark working knowledge electronic stability control 181 u.s general services administration executive order 13423 strengthening federal environmental energy and transportation management 181 kurzweil ray the coming merger of mind and machine 182 gibbs w wayt untangling the roots of cancer 182 gawande atul the cost conundrum health care costs in mcallen texas 183 sample performance tasks for informational texts history/social studies science mathematics and technical subjects 183 appendix b 13

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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects k­1 text exemplars stories minarik else holmelund little bear illustrated by maurice sendak new york harpercollins 1957 1957 from birthday soup mother bear mother bear where are you calls little bear oh dear mother bear is not here and today is my birthday i think my friends will come but i do not see a birthday cake my goodness ­ no birthday cake what can i do the pot is by the fire the water in the pot is hot if i put something in the water i can make birthday soup all my friends like soup let me see what we have we have carrots and potatoes peas and tomatoes i can make soup with carrots potatoes peas and tomatoes so little bear begins to make soup in the big black pot first hen comes in happy birthday little bear she says thank you hen says little bear hen says my something smells good here is it in the big black pot yes says little bear i am making birthday soup will you stay and have some oh yes thank you says hen and she sits down to wait next duck comes in happy birthday little bear says duck my something smells good is it in the big black pot thank you duck says little bear yes i am making birthday soup will you stay and have some with us thank you yes thank you says duck and she sits down to wait next cat comes in happy birthday little bear he says thank you cat says little bear i hope you like birthday soup i am making birthday soup cat says can you really cook if you can really make it i will eat it good says little bear the birthday soup is hot so we must eat it now we cannot wait for mother bear i do not know where she is now here is some soup for you hen says little bear and here is some soup for you duck and here is some soup for you cat and here is some soup for me now we can all have some birthday soup cat sees mother bear at the door and says wait little bear do not eat yet shut your eyes and say one two three little bear shuts his eyes and says one two three mother bear comes in with a big cake now look says cat oh mother bear says little bear what a big beautiful birthday cake birthday soup is good to eat but not as good as birthday cake i am so happy you did not forget appendix b 14

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common core state standards for english language arts literacy in history/social studies science and technical subjects yes happy birthday little bear says mother bear this birthday cake is a surprise for you i never did forget your birthday and i never will text copyright © 1957 by else holmelund minarik illustrations copyright © 1957 by maurice sendak used by permission of harpercollins publishers eastman p d are you my mother new york random house 1960 1960 a mother bird sat on her egg the egg jumped oh oh said the mother bird my baby will be here he will want to eat i must get something for my baby bird to eat she said i will be back so away she went from are you my mother by p d eastman copyright © 1960 by p d eastman copyright renewed 1988 by mary l eastman used by permission of random house children s books a division of random house inc seuss dr green eggs and ham new york random house 1960 1960 lopshire robert put me in the zoo new york random house 1960 1960 i will go into the zoo i want to see it yes i do i would like to live this way this is where i want to stay will you keep me in the zoo i want to stay in here with you from put me in the zoo by robert lopshire copyright © 1960 renewed 1988 by robert lopshire used by permission of random house children s books a division of random house inc all rights reserved any additional use of this text such as for classroom use or curriculum development requires independent permission from random house inc mayer mercer a boy a dog and a frog new york dial 2003 1967 this is a wordless book appropriate for kindergarten lobel arnold frog and toad together new york harpercollins 1971 1971 from the garden frog was in his garden toad came walking by what a fine garden you have frog he said yes said frog it is very nice but it was hard work i wish i had a garden said toad here are some flower seeds plant them in the ground said frog and soon you will have a garden how soon asked toad appendix b quite soon said frog toad ran home he planted the flower seeds 15

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