Lesson 4 Open a Book, Open Your Mind
Holes
“Dig harder, Stanley! The harder you dig, the ____ you’ll finish!” yelled Mr. Sir.
Stanley Yelnats couldn’t dig any harder since every single muscle ____.
He was thirsty and ____. He wanted to go home.
Unfortunately, Stanley’s home for the next 18 months ____ be right here, at Camp Green Lake.
Camp Green Lake was a terrible name.
It wasn’t green and ____ was no lake.
Camp Green Lake was ____ and full of sand.
In fact, it ____ even a camp. It was a place for bad boys.
Then ____ was a good boy like Stanley doing here?
He was ____ to the camp for stealing a pair of sneakers.
Stanley didn’t really ____ a pair of sneakers.
He was just in the ____ place at the wrong time.
____ day, he was walking home from school.
Suddenly, a pair of old sneakers fell ____ the sky.
The sneakers hit him on the head.
He started ____ with the sneakers to tell his father what happened.
A few minutes later, the police stopped Stanley and ____ him why he was running.
Unfortunately for Stanley, the sneakers belonged to a famous ____ player, Clyde Livingstone.
That was why Stanley ended up at Camp Green ____.
Stanley was assigned to ____ D in the camp.
There were ____ other boys in Stanley’s group.
They all had cool names like X-Ray, ____ and Zero.
Each boy had to dig one hole every ____.
It had to be about 150cm deep and 150cm ____.
Mr. Sir ____, “You are digging to build character.”
The more Stanley dug, the stronger he became.
It took less time to finish his hole ____ day.
In his second ____, as Stanley was finishing his hole, he saw something shiny in the dirt.
Stanley’s heart ____ faster.
He heard that anyone who found something ____ would be given the day off.
He carefully picked up the shiny object and ____ off the dirt.
It was a small ____ tube.
But it couldn’t be real gold ____ it was too light.
____ were two letters, KB, at the bottom of the tube.
____ did KB stand for?
Stanley’s heart beat even ____.