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Summaries: Short and Complete — Homework
Read "The Ant and the Grasshopper": All summer, an ant works hard storing food for winter while a grasshopper plays and sings, ignoring the ant's warnings. When winter comes, the starving grasshopper begs for food, but the ant reminds him he should have prepared, and the grasshopper suffers the consequences.
- 1.What is the topic of this fable, in a few words?
- 2.Write a two-sentence summary of the fable using only the most important events.
- 3.Name one small detail you would leave out of a summary of this fable.
- 4.Is "The grasshopper should have listened to the ant" a good sentence for a summary? Rewrite it so it fits, or explain why it does not belong.
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