How I Met My Best Friends
Mrs. ____, my social studies teacher, made an important announcement.
"____ will create a newspaper in groups. Check out your new group members."
Mrs. ____ started calling out the names of the students in each group.
After a ____, my name was called.
"Group 4, Jisu..." "Who will be in my ____?" I wondered.
Mrs. Choi continued, "Lina, Inho, and ____."
I couldn't believe my ____.
I didn't know ____ in that group.
I ____ like crying when I sat with my group members.
We didn’t have anything in common.
Lina was always drawing something by ____.
Inho never said anything, and his only ____ seemed to be soccer.
Min was smart, but he always had his ____ in a book.
I couldn't ____ thinking how unlucky I was.
I decided to convince ____. Choi that I should be with my friends.
"Maybe she would let me change the ____," I thought.
But ____ I could say anything, she gently placed her hand on my shoulder.
"I know what you want, Jisu," she ____,
"but I'm ____ you will get to like your group members.
Don't ____ think it's worth trying?"
I didn't really ____ her, but I said, "Okay," and walked away.
The project wasn’t easy from the start.
We couldn't ____ on the topic for our newspaper.
I felt like giving up on the project, so I asked my friend Ryan for ____ advice.
"Try to understand your group ____ first," he said.
So I carefully watched my ____ members.
And I came across some amazing facts ____ them.
____ read a lot of Japanese comic books, so she was an expert on Japanese culture.
Inho's Korean sounded a bit different, but that was because he lived in Argentina when he was ____.
He knew a lot about Argentina and its ____.
Min's mom was Vietnamese, and Min used to spend ____ time in Vietnam.
He read a lot of history books and loved to talk about ____ and its history.
I thought of the perfect topic for our group.
We decided to write about world culture. I had Lina introduce ____ culture.
Inho wrote about Argentina and its soccer, and Min covered Vietnamese culture and ____ history.
I was in ____ of editing the whole newspaper.
Our newspaper project was a great ____.
We ____ an A⁺, and my group members became my best friends.
I will end my ____ with this saying.
Don't judge a book by ____ cover.
Read it. It might turn ____ your favorite book.