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My Taj Mahal Lego
Gardner Brown
January Grade 2
When I got my Taj Mahal lego building kit, I was so excited. I started to build it right away. Then it took my dad and me four months to finish it. When we were done, I brought it in for “show and tell.” Everyone thought it was a great share. We also showed all my other friends who live near me, and they said, “It is really good.” But my sisters thought it was not that great. They just said, “Cool.”
One morning I woke up and went downstairs and figured out that there was missing a piece. We found it, and we put it back on. Now the Taj Mahal looked awesome! My dad thought it was wonderful, too!
Rosa Parks
Anna Pierson
January Grade 1
We remember Rosa Parks because she worked to end discrimination against the African Americans. Rosa Parks was the great granddaughter of slaves. She was strong but gentle. Rosa Parks got on a bus through the front door. She was not supposed to. She paid the fare and got off the bus. After Rosa paid the fair and was supposed to get on in the back of the bus, the bus driver drove away without Rosa getting on the bus. Rosa Parks had to wait for the next bus. Then on another day, she got on a bus and Rosa Parks sat in the middle of the bus and the driver said, “I’m calling the police!” The police came and asked Rosa to move to the back of the bus. Rosa said, “No!” Rosa got arrested. She did not move to the back of the bus because the black and the white people were segregated, and she was trying to make things fair. She got out of jail because Martin Luther King, Jr. made a speech saying segregation is illegal. Then the black and white people went to school together, and they began to make friends with each other very slowly.