Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs had a lot of 1.1 and curiosity as a child. He enjoyed making 1.2 movies at home with his friends in the neighborhood. His 1.3 led him to do dangerous things, like stick a metal hairpin into an electric socket. (He was badly burned!) He also drank ant poison and had to have his stomach pumped at the hospital. He was not very well behaved in school and often wasted time. He was interested in anything scientific. He worked on inventions, took apart machines to see how they worked, and combined 1.4.

Jobs had few friends and didn’t like school until he met Steve “The Woz” Wozniak. They met in high school. Woz was a whiz with electronics and was always inventing new gadgets. Jobs and Woz spent a lot of time building 1.5. Jobs even called the owner of a computer company to get some free parts. What he got was a good summer job building computers.

After a short stint at college and a job working with Atari®, Jobs and Woz created their own business. They worked out of Jobs’s family garage. They named the company after a happy summer Jobs had spent picking apples in Oregon. They called it Apple Computers®. They created the Apple I Computer®, which was a success. They soon created a better version, the Apple II®, which was also successful. By the time he was twenty-five, Jobs was already worth over 250 million dollars. He would go on to make the Macintosh®. He would continue to develop computers and the products that use them, such as the iPod® and iPhone®. Steve Jobs is considered one of the most 1.6 people in the world. He is also a very successful businessman.

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Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs had a lot of imagination and curiosity as a child. He enjoyed making spy movies at home with his friends in the neighborhood. His curiosity led him to do dangerous things, like stick a metal hairpin into an electric socket. (He was badly burned!) He also drank ant poison and had to have his stomach pumped at the hospital. He was not very well behaved in school and often wasted time. He was interested in anything scientific. He worked on inventions, took apart machines to see how they worked, and combined chemicals.

Jobs had few friends and didn’t like school until he met Steve “The Woz” Wozniak. They met in high school. Woz was a whiz with electronics and was always inventing new gadgets. Jobs and Woz spent a lot of time building gadgets. Jobs even called the owner of a computer company to get some free parts. What he got was a good summer job building computers.

After a short stint at college and a job working with Atari®, Jobs and Woz created their own business. They worked out of Jobs’s family garage. They named the company after a happy summer Jobs had spent picking apples in Oregon. They called it Apple Computers^®. They created the Apple I Computer®, which was a success. They soon created a better version, the Apple II®, which was also successful. By the time he was twenty-five, Jobs was already worth over 250 million dollars. He would go on to make the Macintosh^®. He would continue to develop computers and the products that use them, such as the iPod^® and iPhone^®. Steve Jobs is considered one of the most inventive people in the world. He is also a very successful businessman.

Source: Daily Warm-ups - Nonfiction Reading Grade 6

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