âonâ day.)
B) What if one of the other girls trying out is better than me?
Big Fat C) What if I donât make it?!!!!
The Comments Old Hawk Wrote on My Vocabulary Assignment
Dear Abigail,
Your vocabulary sentences lack the following: creativity, proper punctuation, proper grammar, and most of all, effort. Not too many years ago, your mother was an outstanding student for me. I am expecting the same from you this year! Please rewrite this assignment.
Miss Hendrick
Two Things Iâm Beginning to Realize about Old Hawk
1. Up until now, my perfect handwriting and neat, on-time assignments helped me get okay grades. Maybe even grades that were better than I deserved, but it didnât look like this was going to work with Old Hawk. I guess even the neatest paper wasnât going to fool her.
2. Sixth-grade LA was going to be hard.
The Note I Wished I Could Write to Old Hawk
Dear Miss H,
Do you have any idea what my life will be lacking if I donât make pom-poms? How about purpose? How about popularity? How about a reason to live?
Iâm putting forth LOTS of effort, but I canât waste it on vocabulary assignments. All you adults think being a kid is so easy, but you should try it. Sixth grade is a lot more stressful than it looks: pom-pom tryouts getting closer by the minute, a friendly letter partner whoâs the schoolâs biggest outcast, a homeroom teacher whoâs notorious for being strict (no offense, Miss H, but itâs true), and my two best friends in a different homeroom.
Now can you understand why my vocabulary assignment wasnât more important?
Your stressed-out, struggling student,
Abigail
One More Reason to Hate the Friendly Letter Assignment
Old Hawk told us to go home tonight and turn an old shoebox into a mailbox to use when we exchange letters. Where am I? Kindergarten?
The only explanation: Old Hawk regrets never having taught kindergarten and wants to experience it before she dies.
Things to Do for LA
1. Rewrite my vocab sentences. (Note to self: this time actually find out what the vocab words mean before writing the sentences.)
2. Make a shoebox-mailbox. (Note to self: look for the craft box full of glue, glitter, sequins, and scissors I used to take with me when I babysat.)
Two Reasons I Didnât Mind Making a Shoebox-Mailbox After All
1. Old Hawk didnât assign any new LA homework in order to give us time to make our mailboxes.
2. I kind of had fun making my mailbox. My mom even helped, and it turned out supercute.
One Thing AlliCam Asked Me on the Bus When They Saw My Shoebox-Mailbox
What is that thing?
One Answer I Gave
Just some lame-o thing Old Hawk had us make for LA.
One Answer I Didnât Give
Only the coolest shoebox-mailbox ever.
Two Reasons LA with Old Hawk Might Be Bearable
1. Old Hawk finally tore down the bulletin board paper covering the bookshelves in the back of her classroom. Kids had been making jokes about the bones of overworked sixth-graders being hidden behind that paper, but everyone knew that wasnât true. What was behind the paper were hundreds of books, and they didnât look like the books in other classroom libraries, all torn and tatteredâthe ones we knew teachers bought at garage sales and used bookstores. These books looked new. They were labeled with tags like humor, adventure, mystery, and historical fiction, and they were so organized it looked like a real library shelf. On the bottom shelves all the way across the back of the classroom were different colored baskets. Each of us saw our name printed on one of them and in each basket was a book. One that Old Hawk said sheâd chosen just for us.
2. After letting each of us go get our basketâmine had Newfangled Fairy Tales: Modern Day Fractured Fairy Tales For Teens in itâOld Hawk explained that we would get silent reading time every day.
One Thing I Realized for the First Time during the First Day of Silent Reading
B) What if one of the other girls trying out is better than me?
Big Fat C) What if I donât make it?!!!!
The Comments Old Hawk Wrote on My Vocabulary Assignment
Dear Abigail,
Your vocabulary sentences lack the following: creativity, proper punctuation, proper grammar, and most of all, effort. Not too many years ago, your mother was an outstanding student for me. I am expecting the same from you this year! Please rewrite this assignment.
Miss Hendrick
Two Things Iâm Beginning to Realize about Old Hawk
1. Up until now, my perfect handwriting and neat, on-time assignments helped me get okay grades. Maybe even grades that were better than I deserved, but it didnât look like this was going to work with Old Hawk. I guess even the neatest paper wasnât going to fool her.
2. Sixth-grade LA was going to be hard.
The Note I Wished I Could Write to Old Hawk
Dear Miss H,
Do you have any idea what my life will be lacking if I donât make pom-poms? How about purpose? How about popularity? How about a reason to live?
Iâm putting forth LOTS of effort, but I canât waste it on vocabulary assignments. All you adults think being a kid is so easy, but you should try it. Sixth grade is a lot more stressful than it looks: pom-pom tryouts getting closer by the minute, a friendly letter partner whoâs the schoolâs biggest outcast, a homeroom teacher whoâs notorious for being strict (no offense, Miss H, but itâs true), and my two best friends in a different homeroom.
Now can you understand why my vocabulary assignment wasnât more important?
Your stressed-out, struggling student,
Abigail
One More Reason to Hate the Friendly Letter Assignment
Old Hawk told us to go home tonight and turn an old shoebox into a mailbox to use when we exchange letters. Where am I? Kindergarten?
The only explanation: Old Hawk regrets never having taught kindergarten and wants to experience it before she dies.
Things to Do for LA
1. Rewrite my vocab sentences. (Note to self: this time actually find out what the vocab words mean before writing the sentences.)
2. Make a shoebox-mailbox. (Note to self: look for the craft box full of glue, glitter, sequins, and scissors I used to take with me when I babysat.)
Two Reasons I Didnât Mind Making a Shoebox-Mailbox After All
1. Old Hawk didnât assign any new LA homework in order to give us time to make our mailboxes.
2. I kind of had fun making my mailbox. My mom even helped, and it turned out supercute.
One Thing AlliCam Asked Me on the Bus When They Saw My Shoebox-Mailbox
What is that thing?
One Answer I Gave
Just some lame-o thing Old Hawk had us make for LA.
One Answer I Didnât Give
Only the coolest shoebox-mailbox ever.
Two Reasons LA with Old Hawk Might Be Bearable
1. Old Hawk finally tore down the bulletin board paper covering the bookshelves in the back of her classroom. Kids had been making jokes about the bones of overworked sixth-graders being hidden behind that paper, but everyone knew that wasnât true. What was behind the paper were hundreds of books, and they didnât look like the books in other classroom libraries, all torn and tatteredâthe ones we knew teachers bought at garage sales and used bookstores. These books looked new. They were labeled with tags like humor, adventure, mystery, and historical fiction, and they were so organized it looked like a real library shelf. On the bottom shelves all the way across the back of the classroom were different colored baskets. Each of us saw our name printed on one of them and in each basket was a book. One that Old Hawk said sheâd chosen just for us.
2. After letting each of us go get our basketâmine had Newfangled Fairy Tales: Modern Day Fractured Fairy Tales For Teens in itâOld Hawk explained that we would get silent reading time every day.
One Thing I Realized for the First Time during the First Day of Silent Reading
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