So today my goal is to catch up on the entries from elementary and then bring the epic tales of Annoyance back tomorrow (ideally). I know you’re just dying to know what is happening with Ishbu and the gang, but be patient.
Third Grade Journal –
Today is Nov 4 This picture is of Lou Gehrig1. He hit 492 Homers and 1990 R.B.I. His highest average was 5002 and when he died he was 38 years old3 and he had 1508 beanballs4 and he played First base his Nickname was LOU “The iron horse” and he was born
1 – I feel that I don’t need to show you yet another of my drawings of Lou Gehrig. Maybe I’ll do a gallery-type posting at some point to show off my work.
2 – This sounds silly, but Lou did actually average .500 in 1924. He only had twelve at-bats, though, so that might diminish the feat just a little.
3 – A little morbid, don’t you think, third grade Guy? I mean come on, dude.
4 – As long as we’re listing useful statistics…
5 – This might be the greatest closing in the history of journals. Just to let you know, he didn’t die in 1941 in 1942, he just plain died in 1941. Don’t let this affect his legend.
Fourth Grade ALP Journal –
Today we started porta-centers.6
6 – I have no idea what the hell this is. No joke, no punchline. It’s a mystery to me. Let’s move on.
Sixth Grade ALP Journal –
Today I really like all the fun games7
7 – And the trend of verbose entries about how fun things are continues. At least in the other instances I could be bothered to use a legitimate verb tense.
Sixth Grade Journal –
My favorite author is Gary Paulsen because he writes excellent books with the way he uses words8. Some of his books are The Winter Room and Dancing Carl. My favorite book is The River. It is about a man who spends 2 months in the wilderness. 1 year later the government wants him to do it again, but this time with a partner, Bryan.9 But tragedy strikes in the middle of the expodition,
8 – That is a good skill to have with the way you use words. Hard to think of a better. One.
9 – I do distinctly remember loving Gary Paulsen books when I was younger. After consulting the Wikipedia page for this book, however, it seems that I’ve mixed things up and Brian (instead of
10 – That is some high drama, Gary Paulsen. Just the kind of stuff a growing boy needs.
11 – I love that I end this entry with The River (and yes, I did underline it) as if my little book report has taken the form of a spelling bee response. “I really like Hitchcock’s Rear Window and recommend it to fans of cinema. It has compelling characters, a nice story arc, and plenty of tension. Rear Window.” I feel like that should be a standard practice.
Sixth Grade Journal –
I might douse (dunk in liquid) fire, food, clothes, or people! Cars bikes, pickles in pickle juice, dishes, plants or squirt12 are other things I might douse. I would douse every item, except pickles, in water.13
12 – I’m going to assume that I meant squirt gun, but in the end your guess is as good as mine.
13 – This might be my favorite journal entry (that isn’t player/team of the day, of course). It’s such a silly topic (I mean really, who would ask their class to write about what things they would douse?), but the exclamation point after “people” and the “pickles in pickle juice” (which was worth noting twice) really set this off for me. Also, at the end of this entry, Mrs Robertson wrote “Great ideas!” I know they are great ideas, lady. I came up with them.
Sixth Grade Journal –
Today I have practice for the 6th grade Hager basketball team from
14 – Take that, Mrs Robertson. I’ll give you all the basic, useless information you can handle. At the end of this entry, Mrs Robertson wrote “Do you enjoy playing basketball?” That wasn’t the question, clearly!
Sixth Grade Journal –
The U.S. Flag is a symbol of freedom, the only free country15, a symbol of hard fought wars to put us where we are now16, 13 colonies, 50 states, the United States of America.17
15 – We might need to rethink this position.
16 – Amen to that, younger self.
17 – That’s poetic. Beautiful. The River.
So you know, last night went pretty well. Plus, to confirm your confusion--I, too, have no idea what porta-centers are. When are we going to run into some KUNA? The River.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that last night went well. We'll see how things turn out when you show up in Black Zionist garb next week.
ReplyDeleteFor whatever reason, KUNA is not particularly present in the ALP journal. I talk about it a bit in the eighth grade journal, but it's still somewhat rare since so much time is devoted to Annoyance. It's weird.
I remember what Porta centers were! Ok so in 6the grade were Career centers, but earlier we had porta centers. They were these folders with TOPICS and we had to choose them, and then make little presentations. For instance, a word-search, or a film strip, or a model, etc... We had to have a certain number of resources because back then there was no internet. So we used the Encyclopedia, the Almanac, etc... Remember?
ReplyDeleteI remember making presentations in ALP all the time, but I don't specifically remember porta-centers. I do remember giving a presentation about basketball that had a crossword puzzle component, and Josh Miller got mad because I didn't give him full credit because he misspelled James Naismith.
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