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Fill-In: Nicki Minaj

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Nicki Minaj is a pop and fashion icon to today's youth. Here, they will read an article about her and what she wore to the MTV Music Awards. They read the article, then attempt to fill in the missing words from several of the paragraphs. A link to the full article and a word bank is included.

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pop music, news articles, journalism, reading, popular culture

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7th - 9th
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English Language Arts
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