Amazed & Confused: Part 3 of 3
Kids write the darndest things in essays. Here are some excerpts of sparkling prose from this year's Oregon writing assessment tests - with corrections - courtesy of the Portland Public Schools. - Alicia di Rado, OREGONIAN, 1997
Grade 8 and 10
Some attractions I would like to see (in Europe) one the Effial Tower, Stonhege, Apocalypse and many many others.
He got in so much trouble he had to go visit the vice principal. He got suspended and before he could come back to school he had to write a 5,000 word paper that said I will not scare girls with frog parts.
One day I was swinging and I fell off (the swing) and died. I ran downstairs and tryed to call 911.
The people that wrote classical literature were famous and also dead.
I'd be famous like being on cereal boxes, radio shows, TV shows, underwear agreements, and maybe my own talk show.
Coos Bay is a boring town. We have a small mall, an itsy-bitsy state park, no ice skating rink, no place for body piercing . . .
Originally published November 14, 2002.
