The Scholarship jacket

The
Scholarship
Jacket

By: Emily
Anderson
and Grace
Luebke

Adapted
from the
short story
by: Marta
Salinas

Once there

was a girl named Martha.





Martha was a
hard working
student and

she had a lot of good

grades in all her classes

for the past eight years.

Martha wanted
something really

special…

...something that
she has been

wanting for eight
years.

I want
that
jacket.



Before the
eighth grade
graduation,
there was a

jacket,

that she wanted, called

The Scholarship Jacket.

Before she gets
the jacket, the
principal told
her that she has
to pay $15 for

the jacket,

even though the

jacket was free.





If Martha was not able to
buy the jacket, then

another student named
Joann

will get the jacket because
of her good grades.

Martha was
walking home,
and she had so

many tears

coming down her cheeks.



So, she ran to her
Grandfather and

asked,

So, she ran to
her Grandfather

and asked,

“Grandpa, the principal said

that The Scholarship Jacket is

not going to be free and I would

have to pay $15 by tomorrow.

Otherwise he’s going to give it

the jacket to someone else.”

But her
Grandfather

replied to
her,

“Is the jacket even worth

it if it needs to be paid

for?”



She cried and cried
because she knew
that she could not

buy the jacket

She cried and cried
because she knew
that she could not

buy the jacket

and she did not have any
money to buy the jacket.

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to the Principal's

office.





The Principal asked
Martha, “What did your

Grandfather say?”

Martha replied, “He said to
tell you that he will not pay

the fifteen dollars.”

There was sudden
silence

in the room.

There was sudden silence
In the room.



Finally, the Principal
changed his mind…

The Principal
said,

“Martha, wait. I decided to tell
the school board that you’ll get

your Scholarship Jacket.”





Finally, Martha has
her jacket from the

school board.