The wisdom of seventh graders: What to do with a time machine (part 2)
(Make sure you've read
Part 1 for background information.)
On the subject of where they would go in a time machine,
many students wrote well-thought-out essays,
beautifully composed.
These sentences below did not come from those essays.
I've categorized the snippets roughly by theme,
though I had to guess at some of them since the sentences are taken
out of context.
(In a futile attempt to assist non-native speakers,
I have glossed some of the trickier parts.
I've also added editorial comments in italics.)
Introductions
- I would be honored to
trie the time machine
- I am highly regarded to be selected to
engorge this experimental journey.
- At the
crack of noon, we will begin our mission.
Personal History: These are essays from students who would
travel to their own past.
- In 5th grade you are at the top of the school,
and you feel the power
over come you.
- Now, if we fall asleep in class we get in trouble.
But in kindergarten if we didn't fall asleep we would get in trouble.
- She would work in little
orchids picking fruit for her family.
- I have 4 things in my life.
Soccer, family, God, and school. In that order.
- If I could find a way to impel paranormal powers
to ignite in ones body
enableing
them to do incredible feats,
I would be ecstatic to the point of bliss.
(This same student wanted Jesus to teach him how
to walk on water.
This student also wanted control over magnetism.
I think he needs to lay off the
X-Men comics for a while.)
The Middle Ages:
The students recently studied the Middle Ages,
which helps to explain why so many of them chose to go there.
- And at that time in history,
everything was changing
either for the good or the bad.
(Whoa there, let's not say anything too controversial now.)
- In Europe during the 1700's there were 5 sections in the social class:
1=Monarchs, 2=Lords & Nobles, 3=knights,
4=pheasants.
(What happened to number five?)
- I find Middle Aged Europe very stimulating.
- France is near water so I will feel more at home.
- We have recently
disgust the Middle Ages.
- King Arthur may have won some battles without the use of fiction.
- In 1550 I would choose to go to Spain because nobody really lived in
N. American then.
- I would learn a lot
gong
to the
Midieval times.
I would even come back and write
and essay about it!
- I'd have benefit in watching a mock battle
between two knights on horseback with lances.
(I may be wrong, but I think the battles in the Middle Ages
were for real.)
- It was sick and
grusm but really a thing to remember.
- And I would go to
Britan because Britan was
populare back in 1616.
United States(?) History
- Also, to investigate how the family worked [in Pilgrim times],
to see if they fought less because they had no appliances to fight over.
- If I could go anywhere I would choose Boston, England.
- I want to see what happened when Ben Franklin flew his kite in the rain.
For this reason I would go to England.
- Though War is Hell, I still would be anxious to see a real one.
(Try watching the evening news.)
- I wish the
great depression, but it did.
(Even after you fill in the missing words, it's still funny.)
- Because California is a very interesting and mindblowing city.
- In 1961 everything including life was simple.
- Hopefully the president at their time isn't an idiot and
stops the first power plant ever built.
- I want to
se
the Great
Babino Babe
Bruth.
- Besides the
Stealer
fans nobody like the Stealers.
- It was like a family
runnun at disneyland.
I'll stop here before I
runnun too much.
We'll learn more about seventh graders and time machines in
the next installment.
