Ballooii l^ide to Tct^Qdom (p.

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Express Yourself Pretend you are the son or daughter of Peter Strelzyk. You and your family have
escaped by balloon to West Germany. On a separate piece of paper, write a letter to a friend in East Germany describing your escape.

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Use the words in the box to complete the paragraphs. Reread the paragraphs to be
sure they make sense.
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Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel did not like living in East Germany because it
was controlled by (1)_________________.

Finally, they decided to escape in a hot-air balloon. Their first balloon leaked vi^hen they tried to
(2) (3)

___________it. They made a second balloon of

.. This balloon fell to the ground and was later found by police
_____they would put the owners in jail.

who (4)

The third balloon took the Strelzyk and Wetzel families to a (5)

of 8,500 feet. When they landed, they searched for (6)__________

to find

out where they were. They were happy when they learned they had made it to
West Germany.
Stories of Escape
O Steck-\faughn Company
Nonfiction 5, SV 6180-X