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History Superhero

by Brad Baumgartner

“Writing history skits is a blast!” said Ms. Ghose, the
fifth-grade social studies teacher.

“In your dreams,” muttered Evan as he sat down with his
group. He could see that he would have to be the leader.
“Okay, let’s decide who we’ll be. How about George and Martha
Washington?”

“That is so pathetic,” said Derek, who thought everything was
pathetic and who rarely smiled. Kalil yawned. Nothing interested
him except superheroes. Jolene sketched in her notebook and
didn’t look up.

“Wait!” said Evan. “How about making George a superhero
with secret powers that no one knows about, not even Martha?
Jolene could be Martha, and Kalil could be George.”

“Okay,” said Kalil. “I could go with that.” Jolene stopped
sketching and looked up. Best of all, Derek actually smiled.
Maybe Ms. Ghose had been right—it was starting to look like
writing the history skit would be a blast after all!

Reading as a Writer In my final paper, I changed my characters'
dialogue to sound more
How does Brad show his realistic. I also used a
characters’ personalities? What comma and the conjunction
kinds of dialogue could help your and to combine sentences.
narrative show more about your
characters? 109