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