L4: Comp:Double Dutch

an award-winning double Dutch team.

hoping to become a double Dutch team.

learning to jump rope and practicing double Dutch

sad after losing their first double Dutch competition

to show how well they work together

to show how much the team needs to improve

to show how different each team member is

to speed up the narrative

"Coach Rockett was thrilled but intimidated."

"In the ropes, it seems that the Steppers defy gravity."

Life for the Snazzy Steppers wasn't always so sweet."

"Coach Rockett even wrote a song to help teach his girls how to jump..."

learns to jump rope himself.

organize a double Dutch team.

get an idea by looking out the window.

buy several hundred yards of clothesline.

are angry.

quit the team.

stop practicing their styles.

do better at each competition.

before they join the team.

when Coach Rockett tells them to.

the first tiem they win a first-place trophy.

after they compete together for a long time.

It reads like a story.

The events are real.

The people are real.

It is about several people

add rhythm.

include jump rope songs.

make the selection mysterious.

show how much the team has improved.

songs with a strong rhythm always rhyme, too.

Coach Rockett wanted to make the songs slow.

strong rhythms match the movements of jumping rope.

the girls had to work harder to get into shape for the competition.

a story

a puppy

funny words

rhyming words