1. His brother bought land last winter. His brother sold the land to the neighbor when there was trouble with the economy . John loves fishing, but wants to be more successful. When he was sad, he painted his boat, “Troubled Waters,” blue and made it shiny. John asked his brother what he thought of the new look but his brother just laughed and said, “You’re always searching for compliments.”
Since John had no energy he did not argue with his brother. Instead, he created more nets and hoped to catch more fish the next day.
2. This paragraph may be confusing to ELL’s because of some of the word choice. The phrases “economy crashed”, “longs to be”, “shined it up”, “fishing for compliments” and “hopes of increasing” may be difficult for ELL’s to understand. If students take some of these phrases literally, they would not be able to understand the sentence. I chose to change these phrases because I think using different words would help them better understand the meaning of each of these sentences.
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