" THE MARBLE CHAMP"
This is a story about a shy girl named Lupe. She is a straight-A student and has won many awards at school. Although she does very well at school, Lupe is terrible at sports. She decides to change this and makes up her mind to become
good at playing marbles. There is a school marble championship coming up in a few weeks, and Lupe begins training very hard for it. She discovers that she is
really good at playing marbles and does very well in the competition.
Literary Words:
Character motivation: explains why a character does certain
things. Motivation is what drives a character’s actions. A
character may be motivated by many things.
Suspense: is a feeling of excitement or curiosity about what is
going to happen next in a piece of literature. Writers create
suspense by hinting at things to come. They also raise questions in the readers’ minds
Academic Words:
considerable= large enough to be noticed or have an effect
displayed= put things where people could see them easily
objective = goal; something that you are working hard to achieve
participate = be involved in a paritucar activity
previous = happening before smething else
Highlighted Words
- champion, person who has won a competition
- recital, public performance of music or dance
- razor-sharp, extremely sharp
- fumed, showed anger
- rummaged, searched for something by moving things around
- accurate, correct or exact
- milky, white, like milk
- agate, hard stone with bands of different colors
- hypnotic, fascinating
- reluctantly, unwillingly; slowly
- rigged, put up temporarily
- opponent, person who tries to defeat someone else in a game
- assigned, given
- quivering, trembling
- instinct, natural ability
- slivers, small broken pieces
- commotion, sudden noisy activity
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