중1 YBM 박준언 8과 본문
The Dot
Art ____ was over.
____ did not leave the classroom.
Her ____ was empty.
Vashti’s teacher ____ at the empty paper.
“Ah! It’s a polar bear in a snowstorm,” ____ said.
“Very ____ said Vashti.
“I just can’t draw.”
____ teacher smiled and shook her head.
“Just make ____ mark. It will take you somewhere.”
Vashti picked up a pen and poked ____ paper. “There!”
Her teacher picked up the paper and looked ____ it carefully.
She returned the paper to Vashti and said, “Now sign ____
Vashti thought for ____ moment.
“Well, maybe I can’t draw, but I can sign ____ name.”
Next week,
Next week, Vashti walked into art ____
She was ____
There ____ a picture above the teacher’s desk.
It was her dot ____ a gold frame!
“Hmm! I can make a better dot ____ that!”
She opened her set of watercolors and started to ____
Vashti painted and painted more to ____ dots.
____ red dot. A yellow dot. A blue dot.
She ____ the blue with the yellow.
She could make ____ green dot!
She ____ very happy with herself.
“I made lots of little dots. I guess ____ can make big ones, too.”
Vashti used a ____ brush and bigger paper to make bigger dots.
Vashti even ____ a dot without painting one.
She painted ____ whole paper except the round center.
There was a ____ dot!
A few weeks later,
A few weeks later, the school art show ____ place.
Vashti’s many dots were a ____ success!
Vashti ____ a little boy.
He ____ standing beside her.
“You’re ____ great artist.
I want to paint like you,” ____ said.
“I’m sure you can. Trust ____ said Vashti.
“No, I can’t ____ draw a straight line.”
Vashti ____ She handed the boy a piece of paper.
“Show ____
The ____ pencil shook while he drew a line.
____ line was not straight.
Vashti looked at it carefully and said, ____ ... sign it.”
____ Dot, Peter H. Reynolds