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Akeelah and the Bee

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Akeelah and the Bee

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCehCmHzBzw

• This film tells the story of Akeelah Anderson, an 11-year-old girl who participates in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

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• Akeelah Anderson, an 11-year-old spelling enthusiast, attends Crenshaw Middle School, a predominantly blaack school in South Los Angeles. She lives with her widowed mother, Tanya, her three siblings Kiana, Devon, and Terrence, and her infant niece. Her principal, Mr. Welch suggests that she sign up for the Crenshaw Schoolwide Spelling Bee.

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Did you can spell this?• Prestidigitation• Ambidextrous• Pterodactyl• Pulchritude

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• Prestidigitation= magic tricks performed as entertainment.

• Ambidextrous= (of a person) able to use the right and left hands equally well.

• Pterodactyl= a pterosaur of the late Jurassic period, with a long slender head and neck and a very short tail.

• Pulchritude= beauty

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Why I choose this movie?

• Because this movie inspired me to try and learn how to spelling correctly and know the hard vocabulary.

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Thank you for your attention