Writing+Prompts

Writing prompts
1.When I was younger at least five of my friends and me played a game called chain. We played it outside during recess on the playground, but it was the most exciting when we played it on Burdick night at Rollaero. To play the game you have to all hold hands and then run. As we are running we have to try and break someone of the chain. It is very funny when we played it at Rollaero because we would go fast and when someone broke off the chain they would go flying. Once one of my friends went flying off the chain and all most hit the wall. Luckily she turned just in time. I guess it was a little dangerous to play that game on wheels, but no one that I know of got hurt. Chain was only one of the exciting games my friends and me use to play and even if nothing funny happened while we were playing… We were always laughing.

Writing Prompts
2. In the mid-1800’s schools only had one room. That is why they are known as a one-room schoolhouse. Schools were only open in the winter and the summer. See during fall children were to help pick apples and corn, cook, work in the fields because it was harvest time and they have to get ready for winter. During this time they also gathered firewood. In spring children were to help plant and plow their crops. Also did you know that boys went to school less then girls because they helped out some during summer and winter too. Anyway, kids who went to the schoolhouse were all taught together by one teacher, no matter what grade they were in or how old they were. Teachers taught the subjects of math, reading, writing, and English, with a tiny bit of social studies to kids our age. Our school experience and there school are very, very different. One our school has more technology then they did. Two we write with pens and pencils, not feathers and ink and three our school is very large and it has way more than one room. I don’t think I would have liked it to much going to school back then, but if that is the way I grew up I wouldn’t know the difference. Once my great grandpa told me a story of how he didn’t meet many new kids because he had a big family with lots of brothers and sisters. He said that when you have a big family and a little schoolhouse you only occasionally see a new kid at your school. I am very glad that I was born in the year that I was born in because I have good friends and a variety of kids in my school.

Across the Curriculum
1. Winslow Homer was born in the year 1836 in Boston. He was raised in the rural Cambridge. Homer loved to be outdoors when he was a child. That is probably why he liked to paint pictures of people outdoors. His parents encouraged him to become and artist but at the time he did not want to. At the age of 19 Homer must have changed his mind. He became an apprentice in training at the Boston lithographic firm of J.H. Bufford. To get this job Homer had to take three drawing classes in Brooklyn, a period of study at the National Academy of Design, and a lots of private class with painter Frederick Rondel. After his three years of training at Buffords he left to become a freelance illustrator. (Freelance – is a person who works as a writer, designer, performer, rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer.) In1859, Homer moved to New York City, where he became the leading illustrator for Harpers.