# Grab the nearest book
# Open the book to page 23
# Find the fifth sentence
# Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions
“Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,
As “Slimy skin,” or “Polly-wog,”
Or likewise, “Ugly James”,
Or “Gape-a-grin,” or “Toad-gone-wrong,”
Or “Billy Bandy-knees”:
The Frog is justly sensitive
To epithets like these. “
From the poem “The Frog” by “Hilaire Belloc”:http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?userid=bsq1kcS4pD&ath=Hilaire+Belloc
as printed in “_What Your First Grader needs to know_ edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.”:http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ISBN=0-385-48119-5