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From the Ted Talk by Julia Sweeney: Letting go of God

Unscramble the Blue Letters

I said, "What happened to the lamanetis?" And they said, "Well, they became our Native Americans, here in the U.S." And I said, "So, you believe the nvtaie Americans are descended from a people who were totally evil?" And they said, "Yes." Then they told me how this guy named Joseph Smith found those buried gold plates right in his bcarkyad, and he also found this miagc stone back there that he put into his hat and then buried his face into, and this allowed him to translate the gold plates from the reformed Egyptian into English.

Open Cloze

I said, "What happened to the _________?" And they said, "Well, they became our Native Americans, here in the U.S." And I said, "So, you believe the ______ Americans are descended from a people who were totally evil?" And they said, "Yes." Then they told me how this guy named Joseph Smith found those buried gold plates right in his ________, and he also found this _____ stone back there that he put into his hat and then buried his face into, and this allowed him to translate the gold plates from the reformed Egyptian into English.

Solution

  1. backyard
  2. native
  3. magic
  4. lamanites

Original Text

I said, "What happened to the Lamanites?" And they said, "Well, they became our Native Americans, here in the U.S." And I said, "So, you believe the Native Americans are descended from a people who were totally evil?" And they said, "Yes." Then they told me how this guy named Joseph Smith found those buried gold plates right in his backyard, and he also found this magic stone back there that he put into his hat and then buried his face into, and this allowed him to translate the gold plates from the reformed Egyptian into English.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. allowed
  2. americans
  3. backyard
  4. buried
  5. descended
  6. egyptian
  7. english
  8. evil
  9. face
  10. gold
  11. guy
  12. happened
  13. hat
  14. joseph
  15. lamanites
  16. magic
  17. named
  18. native
  19. people
  20. plates
  21. put
  22. reformed
  23. smith
  24. stone
  25. told
  26. totally
  27. translate