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“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
By Mark Twain
What is a FRAME NARRATIVE?
In a nutshell, a frame narrative is a “story within a story.”
Shorter Story
Story
Examples of FRAME NARRATIVES...
• Titanic – (the movie) The story of “Old Rose” revisiting the site of the Titanic “bookends” the love story of Jack and “Young Rose” onboard the ship in 1912.
• Forrest Gump – Forrest (in the present) is telling his life story (of Forrest in the past) to various citizens on the park bench.
• Can you think of any others?
DIRECTIONS
Create the double box diagram.
As you read:
In the outer box, summarize the “outer” story.
In the inner box, summarize the “inner” story (the story being told within the story).
Local Color and Regional Dialect
Regional Dialect Ex. “Thish-yer”
StandardEnglish
Ex. This here
Local Color- the use in a literary work of characters and details unique to a particular geographic area
Regional Dialect- language specific to a particular area of the country
(Put examples in regional dialect dictionary chart from the story)
Animals
Animal Deceptive characteristics that made people think it would lose.
How the animal won bets for Jim
Fifteen-minute Nag
Andrew Jackson
Dan’l Webster
Literary terms
Term Definition Example from Story
Characterization act of creating and developing a character
Point of view perspective from which a story is told
Personification a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
Simile comparison using like or as
Stereotype thought that may be adopted
about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things
Satire Writing that ridicules or critizes
POST-READING…
Questions
Which stereotypes lead to satire? Explain.
Which are larger than life characters? Explain.
How does vernacular and exaggeration add to the humor? Explain.
How does the regional dialect highlight the differences in the characters? Explain.
Grammar Focus •Double negatives are created by using two negative words in a sentence where only one is needed. In effect, two negatives cancel each other out, thereby changing the intended meaning of a sentence. Double negatives are not accepted in Standard English, but they do appear in some regional dialects.
Here, Simon Wheeler speaks with a double negative: Examples: “…he hadn’t no opportunities to speak of…”
“there couldn’t be no solit’ry thing mentioned but that feller’d offer to bet on it…”
Practice: Rewrite the following sentences from the story, revising them to eliminate double negatives.
1. Why, it never made no difference to him… 2. …you couldn’t fetch nothing for him to bet on but he’d match you. 3. …maybe you’ve had experience and maybe you ain’t only a amature. 4. ...it warn’t no use—he couldn’t budge. 5. …a yaller one-eyed cow that didn’t have no tail…
Optional extension activity…
Go to Mrs. Campbell’s website under Origami Frog Instructions to make an origami frog to “race” in class FRIDAY
Winner receives a special prize!