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Our future leaders??
Be afraid, be very afraid!
Insight into the minds of 6th graders: The following were answers provided
by 6th graders during a history test. Watch the spelling!
Some of the best humor is in the misspelling.
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 all 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 with out any ingredients. Moses
went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he
ever reached Canada.
3. Solomon 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 canonized by Bernard Shaw.
9. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen" as 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 Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
11. The greates 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 tradgedies,
comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and
Juliet are 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 contended congress.
Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the
Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats
backward and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin
died in 1790 and is still dead.
14. Abraham Lincoln became America's greates 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 composititons 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 when everyone was
calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
17. The nineteeth century was a time of a great many thoughts and
inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started producing by
machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to
spring up. Cyrus McCromick invented the McCormick raper, which did the
work of a hundred men. · Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbits.
Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of Species. · Madam
Curie discovered the radio. · And Karl Marx became one of the Marx
Brothers.
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