03-15-2009, 08:09 AM
Starry Night is one of my favorite paintings.
Syber, don't you just love when teachers challenge you? My favorite challenge was in the 5th grade. We had a book fair and I bought Moby Dick (OBK mentioning this reminded me of this story too) and Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land.
Mr. Gasparo (egads I even remember his name!) was all kinds of pissy because I bought these two books and insisted I wouldn't understand them and I shouldn't have bought them.
We were to do an assignment with a book we bought at the fair but I was warned no more Pipi Longstocking book reports. So I bought those two books.
I told him I was going to write one on Moby Dick. He laughed in my face and gave me two extra weeks to read it and report on it.
I really wish my mother saved all my stuff from school.
Anyway, the report was not a literary work of genius but I got a passing grade and an apology from Mr. G. I did indeed understand it (barely but hell I was only 10!).
I was always good with reading but math... pfft - I'm lucky my checkbook balances.
Syber, don't you just love when teachers challenge you? My favorite challenge was in the 5th grade. We had a book fair and I bought Moby Dick (OBK mentioning this reminded me of this story too) and Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land.
Mr. Gasparo (egads I even remember his name!) was all kinds of pissy because I bought these two books and insisted I wouldn't understand them and I shouldn't have bought them.
We were to do an assignment with a book we bought at the fair but I was warned no more Pipi Longstocking book reports. So I bought those two books.
I told him I was going to write one on Moby Dick. He laughed in my face and gave me two extra weeks to read it and report on it.
I really wish my mother saved all my stuff from school.
Anyway, the report was not a literary work of genius but I got a passing grade and an apology from Mr. G. I did indeed understand it (barely but hell I was only 10!).
I was always good with reading but math... pfft - I'm lucky my checkbook balances.