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Minecraft Beware The Creeper

RDQ:	372	Max Word/Sent	23	Total Words	610		Diff Words	246
Lex	590	Ave Word/.Sent	11	Hi Freq occurs	393	64.4%	Hi freq	91	37%
AR	2.4	Long Sentences	5.5	Low Freq occurs	25	4.1%	Low freq	20	8.1%

I had only been exploring in Minecraft for a few hours when the sun started to set. It got spooky as the darkness quickly closed in around me. I heard a strange sound]]
Boom]]
it was creeper.]]
It was my first night in this new world, and a creeper had already blown up my campsite. I was shocked by how easily it snuck up on me. That was scary. If I was going to make it in this world, I needed to be more prepared next time the sun went down. I decided to learn everything I could about these hostile, unpredictable creatures.]]
First, I had to be better protected. I collected wood and built a little house. I had just closed the door when the sun went down again.]]
The next day, I mined some iron and crafted it into armor to protect myself while outside.]]
I suspected that the creeper had spawned in the dark, so I knew I needed to light up the area around my house. The new tortures did such a good job. I hardly noticed the sun going down again. No creatures appeared in my area, but no matter how many torches I placed, the darkness was looming just beyond their glow.]]
Part of me wanted to run into my little house and sleep the night away. But I needed to explore in the dark to learn more about creepers. I grabbed my sword and armor, and slipped into the darkness.]]
The next time a creeper approached, I was prepared. Once I heard the telltale hiss, i ran away. When I was safely behind a tree, I turned back to see the explosion. But the creeper didn't explode. It just crept toward me, staring silently with its big, blank eyes. It was getting closer, but I had an idea.]]
I tapped the creeper with my sword and ran away until hissing stopped. Then I did it again and again until the creeper fell to the ground, defeated. It disappeared, leaving on the grass just a little pile of gunpowder?]]
I picked up the gunpowder. Suddenly, I had a great idea. I spent the rest of the night hunting creepers. I went back to my house to grab some sand from my chest. Then I started crafting.]]
Now the creeper wasn't the only one with the power of explosion.]]
I felt amazing, like nothing could stop me. I decided to spend the whole next day exploring. After a while, I saw a village.]]
I met villagers. I found my first diamond. I met a stray cat. Could I tame it?]]
When the creeper started creeping toward me, this time I wasn't scared. But to my surprise the creeper was. As the creeper ran away from the cat, I looked at the cat, curious.]]
I felt something sail past my head. I looked past the creeper and saw a skeleton holding a bow and arrow. The creeper crept between us and took the next arrow meant for me. Where the creeper had just been, there was a music disc on the ground.]]
I didn't have time to wonder what had happened. I defeated the skeleton with my sword, grabbed the disk, and gave the rest of my fish to the cat. Then I hurried into a village house to wait out the night.]]
From that day on, I always had my cat friend close by, especially at night. The creepers kept their distance. Now that I had a music disc, I knew just what to craft with my very first diamond: a jukebox.]]
Now it's party time and there's no reason to be afraid of creepers.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Little support

Simple graphics, not necessary to text

Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues

Language: Few descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Oral/Natural

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First Person

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Danger

Fighting

Low Frequency Words

approached	collected	crafted	crafting	curious
diamond	exploring	gunpowder	hostile	jukebox
minecraft	mined	spawned	suspected	sword
telltale	torches	tortures	unpredictable	villagers