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Chapters 1-6

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Beasley, Kate. Gertie’s Leap to Greatness. Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2016. First edition.

• In Chapter 1, Gertie finds a half-dead bullfrog, and she takes it home and resuscitates him with a turkey baster.

• Gertie’s Aunt Rae wonders what Gertie is doing, and Gertie tells her that she brought the frog back so that he “could become a miracle of science” (5).

• Gertie puts the frog in a shoebox with some nice wet leaves.

• Then she collects bugs from under the bug zapper to feed the bullfrog.

• Gertie has a mission, and she always completes her missions.

• She is going to be the greatest fifth greater in the world.

• In Chapter 2, Gertie wants to be the greatest fifth grader in the world, because two days before she resuscitated the frog, she saw...

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