Sentence 1: Mariana thought she was a great speller. 
 Sentence 3: Mariana spent the next 3 months practicing all the words 
 Sentence 4:  The day of the bee, Mariana misspelled her first word 
 Sentence 5:  Mariana began to cry as her dream of winning the bee was crushed 
 Option 1: She signed up for the school spelling bee. 
 Option 2: She signed up for the school reading club.