Monthly Archives: May 2017

Old Writing: Part 18::Miss Woiwode!

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This is from 6th grade. Miss Woiwode was our student teacher. I’ve written about her famous brother before.

Miss Woiwode!

I was thinking as I walked to school at 11:45 that it probably would rain today. It did. I was waiting for Eugenia inside the school building. Here she came up the walk. I ran out to meet her. I yelled, “Eugenia dumb dumb!” So Miss Woiwode had changed her mind. Eugenia and I were supposed to to to the lunchroom but Eugenia kept on saying, “I don’t know a living soul in here.” So Eugenia and I weren’t in the rain at all.

That made very little sense to me. I must have left something out! Eugenia and I lived close enough to school to walk home and back to school at lunchtime. I guess Eugenia was uncomfortable as I was being in the lunchroom during lunchtime.

I’m betting that Miss Woiwode had invited us to eat lunch with her but either forgot or changed her mind.

Old Writing: Part 17::Picking Countries

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This was written when I was in 6th grade. I am thinking we were studying how to write newspaper articles.

Picking Countries

“Wednesday, February 5th was the day for picking countries in social studies,” said Mrs. Anderson, sixth-grade teacher at Highland School. “The boys and girls will each give a report on a country in Europe and tell about their country, the climate, geography, costumes, and people. Each report will take place when they come along in the social studies book,” continued Mrs. Anderson, “The purpose of the reports is for the children to get accounted to the countries for upper grades.”

Some children wanted the same countries, so Mrs. Anderson let one have the northern half and the other have the southern half.

Old Writing: Part 16::Two Cinquains

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This paper has no date but it does have directions for how to write a cinquain:

  1. One word title (names the topic)
  2. Two words describing the title (defines or describes)
  3. Three words describing actions (expresses action)
  4. Four words expressing feelings (expressions of personal attitude)
  5. Another word for the title (synonym for topic)

I wrote two but didn’t finish the first:

Butterflies
Pretty insect
Softly flying landing
Enchanting

Summertime
Lively time
Playing, working, having fun
Wonderful, delightful
Warm

Yeah, I’m pretty much a failure at cinquains.