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Vocabulary: Arrest
The Tightrope Walker
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Genre: ActionSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Arrest, Beauty, Break the law, Drop by drop, Imagine, Leak, Shoot, Step by step, Suddenly, Tightrope, Worried to deathWord Count: 1147Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyThe people began to shout and cheer: ‘You can do it!’ ‘He’s three quarters of the way across!’ ‘Just a bit more!’ Everyone’s hearts were open to the tightrope walker. They did not imagine him dying now. They imagined him making it to the end. They imagined the feeling, when he would make the last step, and everything would be OK.
The Red Mountain
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Genre: Myths & LegendsSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Anti-blackness, Arrest, Attack, Bail money, Brutality, Colonialism, Corruption, Fearless, Fight, Funeral, Heartless, Immigrant, Knight, Look like, Marry, Prince, Princess, Protest, Racism, Slave, Theory, Tower, Weak, WeaponWord Count: 2084Original Author: Beatrice ValleferroOnce, there was a horrible king. He loved killing people. If someone bothered him, he said, ‘Fight me!’ and made the person fight him. He always won the fight, and the floors of the castle always had blood on them. Everyone was afraid of him. His family was afraid of him, his friends were afraid of him, and the people of his country were afraid of him. When the King was not there, they called…