AO3 Term 2
Exams
We have 3 terms in our year. At the end of a term we look back. Here's our walk thru just a bit of Lovebug's exam thru her eyes.
4/1/09
Story of Inventions by Michael J. Mc Hugh & Frank P. Bachman
Henry Bessmer made steel. It took 3 ½ years to make. He was born in London in 1830. He was a boy. He was a young teenage boy.
John Gutenberg made his very very first Bible. He made the first press too. In Gutenberg’s time the animals cost 25 cents to 5 dollars. A sheep was .25. A cow cost 2 dollars and a horse was $5. He was born in Germany and he lived from 1400 to 1468. During his time the poor had to have block Bibles. There were many books the rich got that have very pretty boarders on the edges for lots and lots of money.
He invented a Bible that had very pretty boarder edges and for some reason his did not cost so much like the rich’s Bible did.
He made little letters that could be pressed onto paper. He tried one mental and it was too soft. It squished. The second metal he tried, iron, and that too was soft and hard. The next time he tried it was lead. It was too too hard and when straight thru the paper. The good thing about it was he did not give up. Like many other people wanted him to.
He lost one of his people. He had three who helped him and one died. Now he had to work with two and was loosing money on his invention.
There was one man who was the money keeper. He gave John some money and had not gotten any back. He was a greedy man. When John Gutenberg finished some of his Bibles, the man saw a great time for his payback. He took all the molds and threw John Gutenberg out. But the church heard he was in trouble. He had helped the church and they called him in. When they heard he had been thrown out they rescued him and gave him their dress, clothing and a place in the church. Soon John Gutenberg got sick and died that year. He was buried at that church. He had invented the first printing press.
The End.
4/3/09
Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty
Gifts
There were some gardens and they were put along a path in the garden. There were many turnips and carrots. The Mr. Carrot complained that he was orange and he wanted to become round. The turnips are round and are purple and white. The carrots have to go down deep in the soil with their point ends with so many roots on them. They get eaten by little children like me. He wanted to be a turnip that is purple and white. He was complaining about that. The turnip started teasing him that he should start trying to get round. The carrot tried to get round. Then the beets whispered to each other of what they heard and when they heard they were talking about starting to get round. Oowwww… Why are they talking about that. Don’t they know they are different from each other. They should be like us and not fight like they always do.
The gardner finally came and pulled the carrot up. He saw the carrot was bumpy in the middle. He was about to throw it away and remembered that the cook was always needed a carrot. So he took it and she chopped him up.
The lesson is to be glad of your own self and not to be greedy of others.
This Country of Ours by H E Marshall
Pocahontas
Pocahontas was a girl and she was an Indian. She saved John Smith from being killed. She married and Englishman and she went to England. Her father was happy she married an Englishman. He made peace for a very long time. His name was Powhatan. When she went to England she saw John Smith. He had to go back to England because some gun powder blew up. When Pocahontas saw John Smith she was very very happy. She said she had believed he was dead. But when she heard that he was not going to call her Pocahontas but Princess in stead, she was very hurt.
She was born in Virginia. She died in 1617.
