Learning By The Way

We started our new writing curriculum today. I am very excited about it. It is called Write Your Roots. Upon completion of the full year of curriculum, we will have a book filled with stories recording our family history.

In addition to questions to help us discover our writing styles, we had a writing assignment. Write a vignette (basically a piece of historical fiction) describing someone you know. Here is Samuel’s vignette about his baby sister.

Margary
by Samuel
Margary sees Einstein at the top of the steps. She gets excited and starts slapping the ground. Then she starts crawling up the steps, jabbering to herself in baby language. “Aba, ba, ba.” She keeps stopping to look up at Einstein. When she gets to the top, she keeps hitting him and pulling his hair, imitating the big children when they pet Einstein and scratch behind his ears.

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