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You all did an amazing job last time so this one is a little trickier. Remember fill the space with an answer that you think makes sense. You get one point for an answer that makes sense and two points for an exact match.
Holes by Louis Sachar
Stanley Yelnats was the only passenger on the bus, not counting the driver __ the guard. The guard sat next to the driver with the seat turned around facing Stanley. A ____ lay across his lap.
Stanley was sitting about ten rows back, handcuffed to his armrest. His backpack lay on the seat next to him. It contained his ______, toothpaste, and a box of stationary his mother had given him. He’d promised to write to her at least once a _____.
He looked out the window, although there wasn’t much to see—mostly fields of hay and cotton. He was on a long bus ride to nowhere. The bus wasn’t air-conditioned, and the hot heavy air was almost as stifling as the handcuffs.
Stanley and his parents had tried to pretend that he was just going away to camp for a while, just like ____ kids do. When Stanley was younger he used to play with stuffed animals, and pretend the animals were at camp. Camp Fun and Games he called it. Sometimes he’d have them play soccer with a marble. Other times they’d run an obstacle course, or go bungee jumping off a table, tied to broken rubber bands. Now Stanley tried to _____ he was going to Camp Fun and Games. Maybe he’d make some friends, he thought. At least he’d get to swim in the lake.
He didn’t have any friends at home. He was ______ and the kids at his middle school often teased him about his size. Even his teachers sometimes made cruel comments without ______ it. On his last day of school, his math teacher, Mrs. Bell, taught ratios. As an example, she chose the heaviest kid in the class and the lightest kid in the class, and had them weigh themselves. Stanley weighed three times as much as the other boy. Mrs. Bell wrote the ratio on the board, 3:1, unaware of how much __________ she had caused both of them.
Stanley was arrested later that day.
He looked at the guard who sat slumped in his seat and wondered of he had fallen asleep. The guard was wearing _______, so Stanley couldn’t see his eyes.
