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This is Greenville School. Seventh graders reading their story, Joey the rat created by Zachary Sheltie, Jose Ortega Land incline and Isaiah robots. We dedicate this story to Miss Glenn, our kindergarten teacher, Joey the rat once upon a time there was a rat named Joey, even though

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Joey was the cleanest rat in the entire city of Oakland, He was bullied all the time from all the animals who didn't take the time to get to know him. All the fancy fluffy city dogs like Fido made fun of him for being dirty and unpack

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spurred. Hey, you're Te o is ugly! One of the fancy dog said, you're bald, Another shouted, look at those legs so short! Another bark, dirty rat. They all course all of them yelling, prowling city cats like ali O. Malley made fun of him for being dirty

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and so small. Look at that nose so long, look at those round ears, scat, scat, you dirty rat! They hissed or Joey didn't even fit in the other rest because he was always very clean. He always claimed his food before he ate, which all the other

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rats thought was weird. Poor Joey! He felt like he would never fit in the dogs, the cats, the other rats, and even mean old tim. The turtle called him a dirty rat. Tim was the meanest bully of all, because when Joey tried to wash his food

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on the edge of their Grand Lake tim would come snapping out the water, clacking 30 rat, and every time joy would drop some of the food he was trying to wash, Joey always wished everyone knew how clean he was, so he wouldn't be judged by everyone,

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Joey always knew that everyone would always think of him as a dirty old rat. One day Joey was collecting popcorn in the park around grand leg when suddenly he was picking, picked up by a pigeon named Oliver who was going to feed her chicks. Look here,

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my feathered friend Joey opened up his little paw. Perhaps you would rather eat some popcorn. It's quite delicious there in his paw, some fluffy white popcorn, Olive decided not to eat Joey after all, all of them, Jolie ended up being really close friends and they did

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everything together, including Gillian getting bullied by tim, the turtle. All of always stick up for Joey when he was getting picked on. You're just an old rat. You will never be as clean as me tim sneered. Even if Joey were dirty, which he's not, he would

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still be better hearted and more caring animal than you are all of cud. Olive would always stick up for Joey when he was getting picked on. You're just an old rat. You will never be as clean as me tim sneered. Even if Joy was dirty, which

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he's not, he would still be better hearted. Always picked up Joey and put him on his back and flew away As they flew away. Joey was sad. Olive told him, Don't be sad. It doesn't matter what other people think. You are a better animal and you

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are the cleanest animal in the city. After Olive gave Joey the speech, they went to Olive's nest, Joey and Olive how to picnic in the tree. But as they were eating, yogurt, slurp, Joey called down to the pond. Hey, Larry, why is tim such a big

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bully? Mhm. Tim used to be the nicest in the family until he got bullied so bad that he decided to come, one, Joey said, who is tim bullied by Larry, answered rats. Joey was shocked. He couldn't believe that his own family was bullying innocent animals. All

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of and Joey flew over back to Tim's ponte. Joey wanted to apologize for his family's actions so they could be friends. Joey did not see tim in his pond, so Joey went swimming to find him. Then all of the sudden an alligator started swimming over to

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Joey to eat him for lunch. Out of nowhere, Tim swooped from the depths of the pond and took Joey back to the shore. Joey was shocked that Tim saved his life. After all the rats had done to him. Be careful where you lurk in my pond.

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Dirty rap, tim sneered, Joey apologized to tim for what his family did to him. Tim apologized to Joey for calling him a dirty rat and bullying them. And then I'll live Joey and tim became friends forever. Don't judge a book by power. There's always more to

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someone's story. Thank you, Zac and Isaiah for reading your story. Um This is uh plot diagram where these students mapped out what their thematic message was and who the characters in their story would be. They also identified what the conflict, the climax and the different points

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of action would be before they wrote their story, and then afterwards they came up with some leveled questions for helping other students process their story. If you would like to have your reader do some gathering of information, that's level one, they can answer the questions What

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is the rat's name and who is the meanest bully who swims in Grand Lake? If you want to bump up into a slightly higher level, thinking that puts you in the processing part of the brain, what events in the story helps support the theme that we

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should not judge a book by its cover. Why did Tim become a bully and then last? If you want to move into the creative highest level of thinking, the question they've given us is imagine if Joey was the one bullying, how would it change the story?

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Thank you for listening to Greenville. Seventh graders read their story Joey the rat.