MY BOOK ...............LILAGCS B2 - 10

Monday June 11,2012

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Going To Grade School

Seventh Grade or Junior High

Seventh grade was a big transition for me. It was a big transition in many ways; we had different teachers for the different subjects and would move from one classroom to another unlike staying in the same room for all of our subjects. I had some difficulty with my English class and Geography class due to my poor reading ability.

We had Industrial Arts class taught by Mr. Zart, the first male teacher I ever had. I liked that class because it was mostly “a hands-on” class. I participated in Glass etching, Mechanical drawing, photography and was the store attendant where my classmates would get their supplies. I had to receive their payments and keep track of the money spent.

One very important thing about Mr. Zart was that he had a paddle that he would use on our behinds if we did something not in the rules. I remember I got a swat on the butt once and remembered it.

It was in the latter part of the school year that my parents made the decision to move to a different location. I remember I was very sad because I didn’t think I ever wanted to move away fro the fire station. The decision was made because mom was going to have a baby and dad didn’t think that the fire station was a good place to raise 3 children. My uncle Dale, dad’s oldest brother was a district representation for the Mobile Gas company and found dad a job as a tank wagon driver in a town called Sac City, Iowa, about 60 miles straight south of Spencer.

I had about two months of seventh grade left when they decided to move. I was fortunate because my Aunt Imajean and Uncle Swede along with my cousin, Webb said that I could live with them to finish out my 7^th grade year.

That worked out real great because Aunt Imajean helped me with my English, we were diagramming sentences. At the end of the year I was very good at diagramming sentences.

 When the time came for me to move to Sac City with the rest of my family, I did so without very much trouble. 


For some reason I was having trouble spacing the paragraphs in this Blog....I'm working on correcting it. I will continue with moving to Sac City and starting school in the Sac City school system in my next Blog B - 11.