Hi, I'm Constance.
Pardon me while I get these form boards painted so we can pour the foundation
for our one room schoolhouse. It is to be named for my wonderful mother, Ruth
Trillich, who we affectionately called "Roosie". She loved children
so much that I am sure she would love to be here with us if she could.
What we are trying to do here is create a small school like the ones in our country
in the early days. There wasn't much in the way of resources, students, books
or teachers. That is why it is going to be so small. However, size is no indicator
of output, so many famous people came from these schools. One example is Henry
Ford, whose school is part of the Greenfield Village museum in Detroit Michigan.
If you would like to see some of our research we have done to prepare for
building our school, come look at what we learned on our School Field Trips.
Just Click here.
Or you can just click on the school sign to see our
school being built.
By the way, here is something a friend forwarded to me through email. It shows why our kids do need schooling!
Fractured history from members of the sixth grade:
1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they
all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert.
The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants
have to live elsewhere.
2. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea where
they made unleavened bread which is bread made without
any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to
get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached
Canada.
3. Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred
porcupines.
4. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people and without
them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had
myths. A myth is a female moth.
5. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around
giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died
from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career
suffered a dramatic decline.
6. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped,
hurled biscuits, and threw the java.
7. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields
of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they
thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped
out: "Tee hee, Brutus."
8. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized
by Bernard Shaw.
9. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen
she was a success. When she exposed herself before
her troops they all shouted "hurrah."
10. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries.
Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another
important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir
Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented
cigarettes and started smoking. Sir Fransis Drake circumcised
the world with a 100-foot clipper.
11. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William
Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly
on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous
only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies,
and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo
and Juliet is an example of a heroic couple. Romeo's
last wish was to be laid by Juliet.
12. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel
Cervantes. He wrote "Donkey Hote." The next great author
was John Milton. Milton wrote "Paradise Lost." Then
his wife died and he wrote "Paradise Regained."
13. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the
Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and
Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration
of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by
rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided
against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790
and is still dead.
14. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent.
Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in
a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham
Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation
Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln
went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one
of the actors in a moving picture show. They believe
the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly
insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.
15. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions
and had a large number of children. In between he practiced
on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach
died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous
composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was
half German, half Italian and half English. He was
very large.
16. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf.
He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks
in the forest even when everyone was calling for him.
Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
17. The nineteenth century was a time of a great many
thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing
by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention
of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring
up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which
did the work of a hundred men. Louis Pasteur discovered
a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist
who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered
radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.
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