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and we're gonna get rid of this. Put it down here, uh huh And we're going to get rid of this as much as I can. Okay. Mhm These are Gern Ville School 8th graders reading their children's story that they've created called the irreplaceable Locket. The writers

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were lily huffstutter, Samantha, Robin, old lili von runner, Nicole pepper with some help from randy commons. Carmen, Garcia and Samantha taylor. We dedicate this book to all the little siblings. Without you. We would not have been able to write this book. That era. Place will walk

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it. There once was a girl named Shaqiri Herman Hernandez. She lived in sacramento California with her mother, father and little brother. Her little brother's name was Adrian. Atrial was a monster. Some days he would take her things, break her things and put frogs in her shoes

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and coat pockets every day. He would come up with a new way to make her squirm with anger. She had no idea why he was always mistreating her. She knew she made sorry, She just knew he made her life miserable. She really hoped he would not

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do something like this today Because today was her 9th birthday. She was really excited so far. The day was perfect, the sun was smiling warmly across her house, the flowers were dancing and the birds were singing, knock knock. The first guest had arrived. It was grandma,

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she carrie loved her grandma very much. She ran to her grandmother with loving arms held wide open and then embraced her with a very big tight tug sake. Shaqiri loved her grandmother's long white hair, soft hugs and how she smiled, smelled like curry and cinnamon all

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and a million warm spices. Hello? Sorry my sweet little Premie, I have a very special present for you. Do you mind waiting in the living room while I go get it? No I can wait. I'm a very patient person. Sakari side with Goofy spread across her

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face. She loved it when grandma called her permit because she knew it was Henry for sweetie and she was about to be spoiled with something special. When her grandmother entered the living rooms, the car, she could see the edge of an itty bitty blue box in

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her grandmother's hands behind her back. Then she carefully place the blocks into Zachary small hands. When Sukar opened the box, you could see a beautiful golden locket, Her grandma took the lock it out and put it around Zachary's next. It's a card when it stopped smiling.

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This was her first time. She had a pretty piece of jewelry. Thank you grandma. I love it, claimed Zachary, bouncing with excitement. Stay still. Let me take a picture of you left grandma with her softly assented voice bubbling joy. Okay? Said Akari, freezing into opposed with

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their head tilt, aled and a big smile on her face, grandma pulled out her phone flash went the camera. Zacharias grandma had taken a picture of her with her new locket as Sakari began to talk. Her grandmother talked to her grandmother about her party and who

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would be their god, real planned up the perfect scheme to make Sicari mad, He would break her new locket so he waited for the perfect opportunity. Before the next guest could arrive, Zachary went to change into her fancy party dress. It was pink with bright yellow

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flowers. It had a light blue bow at the back as she began to pull off her shirt off her head without her knowing her locket with it, flew off to the floor with a flop. So carry guests are arriving! Shouted Zacharias mother. Okay, mom? She held

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back. Zakaria quickly pulled her dress over her head and rushed out of her room. She barely noticed her brother waiting in the hall with narrow eyes and sneaky grin. What could he possibly want? She didn't think twice about it and ran into the kitchen to greet

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her guests. As soon as Zachary was in the kitchen, Adriel rushed into Zachary's room so Carrie didn't realize that her locket had fallen to the floor. You know that with this chance to break her locket so he picked it up the beautiful locket. He thought to

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himself, this is a really pretty but will she miss it now? Probably not. She's getting tons of presents today. I'll bet by tomorrow. She'll have forgotten all about it. She always gets everything first. Everyone gives her more. Then he puts the chain in both of his

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hands and started pulling snaps. The locket broke into the golden walk. It gracefully fell to the ground where it landed with a sad clatter. Then suddenly James heard a sound that slowly became faster, louder and faster. Some so something it was his sister coming through the

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hall. Had she realized her locket was gone. Adriel tossed the locket back on the floor just as highly because you found it Only not, it was in two pieces. He zipped down the hall like lightning and into safety of his room. Mommy! Mommy come quick! It's

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horrible. Sakari screams so badly. It sounded as if the windows were about to shatter. Kareen knew that Adrian had something to do with this. He was ruining her fun. She ran down the hall with tears streaming down her face. Sam Zachary kicked it. Your she's really

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mad. She felt like she was about to explode Atrial. I know you broke my locket website carry. I did not. Why would you think that wind Atrial innocently? You're lying. I'm going to tell mom. Oh yeah. Where is your evidence? Taunted Atrial with a large, creepy

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grin across his face. Oh, you're so annoying and you never leave my stuff alone. Why don't you just go and bother someone else? Because it's just way more fun. It's just way more fun to see you upset whatever. You're just jealous because it's day all about

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me and no one is going to pay attention to you today. I am not jealous and I still didn't break your locket. Yes, you did A minute. Saqqara space is getting ready for bed second. She looked like a screaming, angry tea kettle Zachary, Adriel stop fighting

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and come out here this instant. Or you're grounded. Your guests are here coming. They slowed as they stepped away from each other. Zachary looked at Adrian with ice cold chilling. Was there? You better tell me the truth right now, Adrian or I'm going to tell mom

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that you hit me. It won't matter if I start crying. And besides, it's my birthday. So no matter what mom will make, well, mom will take my side today. So Carrie was right. She was very convincing actor. It wouldn't matter how much he tried to argue

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back. Her parents always took the car side. You have three seconds before I tell mom. one, two, three, Mom. Adriel covered Zachary's mouth. Fine! I broke it, he confessed, but it's not like it mattered anyway. You're getting a ton of presence today, but tomorrow you would

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have forgotten all about it. Adriel stomped out the room, pounding his feet into the cold, hard floor. Zachary was totally bummed out. She loved that. Walk it so much and now it was ruined. So Carrie try not to think about it and went out to the

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party. Zachary. What's going on my little friend. That as my mother shuffling up, Zachary turned to the welcoming cinnamon flavored hug that was her grandma's arm. She confessed the whole thing to grandma. Please dear. It was a special air place that walking that has been broken.

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It was ripped from my neck. So I think that necklace has seen more fighting than you know. Perhaps as with all fights, there's more story and James should. Mhm. Prima Dear. It is a special air place will walking. But it has been broken before it was

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ripped from my neck when I fled my village. But a kind neighbor saved it. And sensitive that necklace has seen more fighting than you know. Perhaps as with all fights, there is more to the story. And James should have been a chance to be heard, not

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just forced into silence. Yeah. Come my dear. It is a special care patients. We'll walk it. But it has been broken before it was written for my neck when I fled my village. But a kind neighbor saved it and sent it to me. That necklace has

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seen more fighting than you know. Perhaps as with all fights there's more food story and Adriel should have have a chance to be heard. Not just forcing silence. Grandma wiped Zachary tears and chuckled. It is irreplaceable but it's not unfixable. I will send it to the

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same jeweler who fixed it once before. Go play with your party friends. It will be okay grandma went to talk to aid real. As she suspected. It turned out Israel felt really bad for breaking necklace. The truth was he was sick and tired of everyone treating

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Sakari as a good and special little angel and him as a nasty troublemaker. His bad behavior was his way of getting revenge and attention and silence. And since they accepted him to be naughty, he did it with pleasure after talking about it. He wanted to do

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something to cheer his sister up because even though he was jealous he wanted her, he wanted to see her happy while everyone else played pin the tail on the donkey and hot potato. Adriel worked quietly in his room making Sakari a special necklace. After the guests

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had left, Atrial approached Zachary. I'm sorry. Sorry, can you forgive me? He asked with his hands behind his back. Zachary hadn't had a long talk with grandma and she also felt bad for being mad at her brother and always getting her way jim. After the guests

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had left, Atrial approached Zachary. I'm sorry Sakari, can you forgive me? He asked with his hands behind his back. Zachary had a long talk with grandma and she also felt mad bad for being read at her brother and always getting her way. She realized she was

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making him into a monster. A monster of jealousy and rage. She couldn't. She could change that. I do forgive you add real and I am sorry for not always fighting fair and making mom and dad believe I always good. I'm always good. You're and you're naughty.

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That's not really nice, she confessed as soon as she said it. Aid Real brought the necklace out from behind his back and crowd Well, who? That's great and I made you this necklace for you to wear while you're waiting for the ruins to be fixed. His

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enthusiasm made Zachary left. She realized she didn't always expect him two. I can't see it. You can't see it. Well, what happened? I can't see the bottom line. Sorry is do you have your zoom the full screen? As soon as she said it, Aid real brought

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the necklace out from behind his back in crowd. Woo hoo! That's great. And I made you this necklace for you to wear while you're waiting for the room to get fit. His enthusiasm in the car left, she realized she did always expect him to be naughty.

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So no surprise that he was instead of holding instead of holding a grudge, Zachary forgave her brother being mad at him and always getting her way was way less fun than playing and getting along. It turned out when he was happy, he would try to make

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her happy as well. So they truly lived happily ever after the end. Sam what's the thematic concept of your story, forgiveness and Nicole? What's the authors thematic statement in other words, a universal message about life that appeals to any reader. It's better to forgive them to

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stay mad someone. So I would like to point out that these students mapped out their story before they started writing, they identified what their concept was, that they wanted to convey a message about and they identified what the message was. And then they came up with

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the characters, the conflict and the climax and built in the rising and falling action to the resolution. They also, at the end of developing these stories, created costas levels of thinking questions for other students to process the story. So, we have Level one thinking which is

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gathering the information. Who did Zachary get her locket from? What did Adriel give Zachary after apologizing and why did the little brother break the necklace, bumping up to higher level thinking. That puts us in processing the information that we've gathered and the questions they have our

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compare and contrast Zachary and Adrian's relationship before and after the lock was broken and what led up to the necklace being broken. And then the highest level of thinking moves us into applying the information that we've gathered and processed. And the questions they came up with

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our If you were a real, would you have broken the lock it and predict what would happen if Aid Real never broke Zachary's locket. And I do want to clarify that there were a couple of points in the story where you came across the name James.

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That's because one of the things that we did with these stories is we work to make them ethnically diverse. So, um, some of the names that we had originally put in, which reflect the typical caucasian characters we altered to reach a broader audience and speak to

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a broader american experience. Thank you for taking the time to enjoy the story. We hope that you did enjoy it.