Dear Teacher...

Slice 27 or 31


Dear Teacher,
I am a cunning little fox. I have out-smarted you. I sneakily found a way to avoid doing the reading of the book for the ditto book report you so happily assigned. I made up my own book (title, author, and plot)! I wrote this all out for you to read teacher just so you’d know I really read my book. Did you know this author teacher? Did you know this book? I wonder why you never looked up my book to see if it was real? Why did you give me an “O”? What is your purpose in assigning this work teacher? Is it so you have pretty work with which to decorate our walls? Are the walls teaching us something or temporarily decorating for visiting eyes to see?

Please teacher, make our work meaningful and authentic. Please take an interest in us… We have tons of great ideas to share with you and each other if you’d only listen and let us talk. Do you know our interests teacher? Why don’t you ask us instead of just telling us things? Please stop making us do workbook pages and ditto sheets-and enough with the coloring*** (it’s for babies). We want to be real readers and writers. We know it won’t be easier for you teacher, but it will truly help us grow, learn and be prepared for the future.
Thank you,
Your Second Grade Student

The student...



is...












me...


when I was a second grader.

This is truly from a the heart second grade student who really did make up a story just to fill in a book report.

***Here is a link to an article about the crayola curriculum...
http://mikeschmoker.com/crayola-curriculum.html