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From the Ted Talk by Jacqueline Woodson: What reading slowly taught me about writing
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Before coming to Brooklyn, my family lived in Greenville, sutoh caonlria, in a segregated nohbohigerod celald Nicholtown. All of us there were the descendants of a people who had not been allowed to learn to read or write. Imagine that: the danger of understanding how lrttees form words, the danger of wrods themselves, the danger of a literate people and their stories. But against this backdrop of being threatened with death for holding onto a naavrtrie, our stories didn't die, because there is yet another story beneath that one. And this is how it has always worked. For as long as we've been communicating, there's been the layering to the narrative, the stories beatneh the stories and the ones beneath those. This is how story has and will continue to survive.
Open Cloze
Before coming to Brooklyn, my family lived in Greenville, _____ ________, in a segregated ____________ ______ Nicholtown. All of us there were the descendants of a people who had not been allowed to learn to read or write. Imagine that: the danger of understanding how _______ form words, the danger of _____ themselves, the danger of a literate people and their stories. But against this backdrop of being threatened with death for holding onto a _________, our stories didn't die, because there is yet another story beneath that one. And this is how it has always worked. For as long as we've been communicating, there's been the layering to the narrative, the stories _______ the stories and the ones beneath those. This is how story has and will continue to survive.
Solution
- beneath
- narrative
- neighborhood
- carolina
- words
- called
- south
- letters
Original Text
Before coming to Brooklyn, my family lived in Greenville, South Carolina, in a segregated neighborhood called Nicholtown. All of us there were the descendants of a people who had not been allowed to learn to read or write. Imagine that: the danger of understanding how letters form words, the danger of words themselves, the danger of a literate people and their stories. But against this backdrop of being threatened with death for holding onto a narrative, our stories didn't die, because there is yet another story beneath that one. And this is how it has always worked. For as long as we've been communicating, there's been the layering to the narrative, the stories beneath the stories and the ones beneath those. This is how story has and will continue to survive.
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