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This is a story written by Granville School sixth graders called a bike and a bestie. It was written by eric Puga flores. Israel gutierrez with help from sam Britain Siri mask, Caroni, Colton medicine and Mauricio flores. A bike and a bestie. Once there wasn't, There was

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a boy named Carlos. He is 11 years old and he lives in Australia. He lives with his mom, dad and his little sister named lily. It was Saturday morning he woke up at nine. a.m. He dressed up, brushed his teeth and went outside with his little

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sister. He grabbed his two seater bike and left off with his sister. They were having so much fun writing their two seater bike although his little sister cannot reach the pedals, she was still having fun. A couple minutes later they were tired and it was getting

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pretty dark so they decided to go inside. They were watching tv while their mom was cooking dinner for them. A couple minutes later they heard something outside so they checked if anyone was there and they saw Lark stealing Carlos two seater bike. Carlos tried to stop

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Lark but he was too fast and escaped. Clark hopped on the bike and flew out of there like it was like the wind. He finally arrived at his house and tucked Carlos two seater bike that he had stolen in a hidden part of his front yard.

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Lark was getting ready to sleep, he took a bath, brushed his teeth, put on his pajamas and went to bed. Meanwhile, Carlos was so sad and mad because Carlos car Clark had stolen his two seater bike, he couldn't even sleep because he, because of how sad

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he was. Finally, Carlos had an idea, he decided he was going to secretly sneak into Larks front yard and steal his two seater bike right back. Carlos turned off the tv and put on his shoes jacket and got his flashlight and went outside and start started

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heading to Larks house. Carlos finally arrived at Larks house to steal his own two seater bike back. He jumped the short yellow fence and into Larks front yard and silently went looking for his two seater bike. He found his two seater bike parked hidden in the

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big bush of bright pink flowers. He was so happy that he had found it. He quietly tiptoed for towards the two seater bike like a ninja and creeping onto the bike, got ready to ride back home. But as Carlos was leaving, he accidentally stepped on a

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twig snap, like shot out of bed and went to check what was happening. He spied he spired Carlo stealing back his two seater bike. So lark ran as fast as he could outside. Carlos saw Lark coming and was nervous and nervous and angry at him because

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he had stolen his two seater bike. I'm sorry I stole your two seater clark, cried out. Carlos was still not happy, he shouted. Why did you steal my two seater bike? Lark felt bad. So he said, I'm very sorry I needed the two seater bike to

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visit my grandma. This surprise Carlos, who, who took a deep breath and calm down. Lark explained that his grandma was in a nursing home and was feeling lonely, but it was too far for him to walk and his parents couldn't drag him because they worked all

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day. Carlos felt even more bad. So he started thinking of a plan to help clark. After thinking for a while, Carlos finally came up with a plan. He told Lark, I have an idea what is it? Said, bark. My plan is that every saturday we could

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ride the two seater bike together to the hospital to visit your grandma? Said Carlos The next morning. Carlos in Lark, one on Carlos II seater bike. And they took a ride to the hospital to see large grandma. They arrived at the hospital and Carlos and Mark

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waited until the nurse said, Okay, boys, you can go see Larks grandma. When they walked into the room, Larks grandma was waiting for them with a big plate of scrumptious chocolate chip cookies. Oh my! She exclaimed, I didn't know I would have to visitors. Who is

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your friend? Lark? Large looked at Carlos with big eyes and a nervous smile. He did not want to admit that Carlos wasn't a friend, he was just the boy whose bike had he had stolen. Carlos looked at Lark and smiled. I'm Carlos, I'm Carlos new friend.

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When Lark heard that he was so, when Mark heard that he was so happy, he felt like he was like crying because he was so relieved. But instead he laughed and jumped for joy while making a new friend calls for celebration. Let's party, tried Larks grandma,

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she put on a record on a record player that looked about 1000 years old and scratchy sounds of old fashioned music filled the room. Let's boogie boys. It's not every day that you make a new best friend or what do you call it? Oh yeah, A

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busty grandma laughed as she wiggled and she made her not so small. Heinie around the room, Lark looked at Carlos. Carlos looked at large. Both boys burst out laughing and jumped into the fun with their own wildest wig lease dance move from that day forward. The

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boys were best friends or besties as grandma like to call them every saturday. They rode out to the nursing home to visit grandma and enjoyed some wild dance parties and whatever cookies she had for them. The end. So Sam Britain was the reader of this story

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and sands group chose the thematic concept Equity. So equity is about um, having equal opportunities for folks that accounts for there being differences in economics, race, um, religion, all sorts of differences that we come to the table with. How can we help to make sure that

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there are equal opportunities for all. And um, so this is the big idea. What message, Sam did your group come up with that? You decided to make your thematic message? Your universal message about life that should come across from your story. Can you read that for

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us helping others benefits everyone? At the end, this group decided on their theme and their thematic message before they started writing the story and they came up with the setting and the conflict and the characters and decided what the big turning point for climax of their

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story would be, story would be and how it would get to resolution. So they did all of this organization and planning before they actually started writing the story. And then within the story you'll see that they included a lot of dialogue and a lot of imagery

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so that the reader can really picture the scene. Another thing that they included are some Costas leveled thinking at the end, some questions that they developed to help readers process the story. Um so if you're reading this with students, you might consider having them go through

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the cost is levels of thinking, starting with level one where we gather information the questions they came up with our what is the protagonists name? Remember? A protagonist is the main character. What does lark steal from Carlos? What does Carlos steal from lark? And then we

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move into higher level thinking where you've gathered information and now you activate your brain to process it. So they level two questions are why does grandma celebrate and what events in the story help us understand the authors thematic message. And then at the highest level of

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thinking, we've got apply questions where you've gathered the information, you've processed it and now you're going to use it to apply to your own life, your own creativity. So level three questions are, predict what type of dessert larks grandma might give them next. Would you have

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done the same thing Carlos did? Why or Why not? And what other solutions could Lark have tried? Besides taking a bike? Thank you for participating in this project with us. We hope you enjoyed our story.