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From the Ted Talk by Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now my publishing career began when I designed the cover for my eighth grade yeoorabk, and if you're wondering about the sytle of dress I put our mascot in, I was really into Bell Biv DeVoe and MC Hammer and vanlila Ice at the time. (Laughter) And to this day, I still can do karaoke to "Ice, Ice Baby" without looking at the screen. Don't tempt me, because I will do it.

So I get shipped off to pvartie school, K through eight, public schools, but for some reason my grandfather was uepst that somebody at the local high sohcol had been stabbed and keilld, so he didn't want me to go there. He wanted me to go to a private school, and he gave me an option. You can go to Holy Name, which is coed, or St. John's, which is all boys. Very wise man, because he knew I would, I felt like I was mkaing the decision on my own, and he knew I wouldn't cohose St. John's, so I went to Holy Name High School, which was a tough taitsirnon because, like I said, I didn't play sports, and it was very focused on sptros, but I took solace in Mr. Shilale's art room. And I just flourished here. I just couldn't wait to get to that classroom every day.

Open Cloze


Now my publishing career began when I designed the cover for my eighth grade ________, and if you're wondering about the _____ of dress I put our mascot in, I was really into Bell Biv DeVoe and MC Hammer and _______ Ice at the time. (Laughter) And to this day, I still can do karaoke to "Ice, Ice Baby" without looking at the screen. Don't tempt me, because I will do it.

So I get shipped off to _______ school, K through eight, public schools, but for some reason my grandfather was _____ that somebody at the local high ______ had been stabbed and ______, so he didn't want me to go there. He wanted me to go to a private school, and he gave me an option. You can go to Holy Name, which is coed, or St. John's, which is all boys. Very wise man, because he knew I would, I felt like I was ______ the decision on my own, and he knew I wouldn't ______ St. John's, so I went to Holy Name High School, which was a tough __________ because, like I said, I didn't play sports, and it was very focused on ______, but I took solace in Mr. Shilale's art room. And I just flourished here. I just couldn't wait to get to that classroom every day.

Solution


  1. school
  2. choose
  3. killed
  4. private
  5. upset
  6. vanilla
  7. yearbook
  8. sports
  9. transition
  10. style
  11. making

Original Text


Now my publishing career began when I designed the cover for my eighth grade yearbook, and if you're wondering about the style of dress I put our mascot in, I was really into Bell Biv DeVoe and MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice at the time. (Laughter) And to this day, I still can do karaoke to "Ice, Ice Baby" without looking at the screen. Don't tempt me, because I will do it.

So I get shipped off to private school, K through eight, public schools, but for some reason my grandfather was upset that somebody at the local high school had been stabbed and killed, so he didn't want me to go there. He wanted me to go to a private school, and he gave me an option. You can go to Holy Name, which is coed, or St. John's, which is all boys. Very wise man, because he knew I would, I felt like I was making the decision on my own, and he knew I wouldn't choose St. John's, so I went to Holy Name High School, which was a tough transition because, like I said, I didn't play sports, and it was very focused on sports, but I took solace in Mr. Shilale's art room. And I just flourished here. I just couldn't wait to get to that classroom every day.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. art
  2. began
  3. bell
  4. biv
  5. boys
  6. career
  7. choose
  8. classroom
  9. coed
  10. cover
  11. day
  12. decision
  13. designed
  14. devoe
  15. dress
  16. eighth
  17. felt
  18. flourished
  19. focused
  20. gave
  21. grade
  22. grandfather
  23. hammer
  24. high
  25. holy
  26. ice
  27. karaoke
  28. killed
  29. knew
  30. laughter
  31. local
  32. making
  33. man
  34. mascot
  35. mc
  36. option
  37. play
  38. private
  39. public
  40. publishing
  41. put
  42. reason
  43. room
  44. school
  45. schools
  46. screen
  47. shipped
  48. solace
  49. sports
  50. st
  51. stabbed
  52. style
  53. tempt
  54. time
  55. tough
  56. transition
  57. upset
  58. vanilla
  59. wait
  60. wanted
  61. wise
  62. wondering
  63. yearbook