The School Play:
Episode 6: Trying
 

Jacob and Jessie had practiced so much that they both knew their lines backward and forwards.  

Jessie had been reading aloud at rehearsals all month. Jacob asked Jessie if she still thought she wasn’t smart.  


Jessie said, “I’ve gotten so much better. Practicing over and over really helps. So does having a friend. Now I know I am smart. You just have to practice the things that are hardest.”  

Jacob said, “Making a new friend was the hardest for me. I thought I wasn’t good enough to make friends. But I practiced and now I have you.”  

Jessie and Jacob were so good at reading their lines that other kids wanted to practice with them before rehearsal.  

Almost all of the kids in the play became friends.  

1. Jessie and Jacob:   
    a) knew their lines backwards and forwards  
    b) didn’t really know all their lines 
    c) decided to give up because it was too hard 

2. Jessie said that you have to practice the things that are hardest. What was the hardest thing for Jessie? 
    a) reading 
    b) making friends 

3. What was the hardest thing for Jacob? 
    a) reading 
    b) making friends 

4. Jacob and Jessie were so good at reading lines that the other kids:   
    a) were jealous of them 
    b) gave up   
    c) wanted to practice with them 

5. Everyone ended up:  
    a) fighting 
    b) becoming friends 
    c) getting confused about their lines   

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