No Dream Too High: Simone Biles vocabulary

What does ELITE mean?

• a group of the best

• to do or perform

• skills, grace

What does EXECUTION mean?

• a group of the best

• to do, or perform

• skills, grace

What does FINESSE mean?

• basic skills

• skills, grace, elegance

• group of the best

What are FUNDAMENTALS?

• basic skills, essential skills

• to give time, money and attention to something

• determination

What does it mean to INVEST?

• to give your time, money and attention to something

• to have determination and grit

• difficulty

What does RESOLUTE mean?

• to be determined

• difficult/challenging

• basic skills and essentials

What does RIGOR mean?

• to give your time, money and attention to something

• to be determined

• difficulty, challenging

Simone Biles is an ________ gymnast. She is one of the best!

• elite

• execution

• finesse

Simone Biles' floor routines are given a difficulty score based on her ________ of jumps, flips, and twists.

• elite

• execution

• finesse

When Simone first started gymnastics, she copied the moves of other girls but lacked the ______, or gracefulness, to make the moves pretty.

• elite

• finesse

• invest