AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
Classic Fiction
Cross-curricular focus: History
In this classic story by Jules Verne, Phileas Fogg accepts a strange bet – that he can travel around the world in eighty days! Together with his faithful servant, Passepartout, Fogg starts the journey to win his bet and has many crazy adventures along the way. He misses a boat, is put in prison, escapes on an elephant and travels on a speeding sledge across freezing snow. And there’s even some time for romance, too … but can he win his impossible bet?
