Does your schools teach you about Columbus and all the expeditions in the new world, or they just jump from the vikings to the mayflower ? [img]wink.gif[/img]
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Does your schools teach you about Columbus and all the expeditions in the new world, or they just jump from the vikings to the mayflower ? [img]wink.gif[/img]
"In October, 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue."
Yeah, we "learned" about him.... or at least a nice little rhyme. [img]wink.gif[/img]
History class was an excuse to sleep for me - I don't remember too much of it.
Now Civics class - that one was a killer! The guy teaching it had a wicked aim with rubberbands if you fell a sleep
i didn't pay much attention but i do believe we learned about him [img]wink.gif[/img]
We first learned about him back in some early grade that I vaguely remember.
After the lesson we made cinnamon toast "boats" with paper-and-toothpicks sails stuck in them. This was a way to learn about the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, and then we ate the fleet.
Either that or there was some subtle lesson about discovering new worlds in relation to a well balance breakfast. If some kid got Montezuma's Revenge out of the deal, it would've been the perfect segue into a lesson of Spain's involvement with the Aztecs.
LMFAO!
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You learn by eating the fleet....... [img]eek.gif[/img]Quote:
Originally posted by Cemetery Man:
We first learned about him back in some early grade that I vaguely remember.
After the lesson we made cinnamon toast "boats" with paper-and-toothpicks sails stuck in them. This was a way to learn about the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, and then we ate the fleet.
Either that or there was some subtle lesson about discovering new worlds in relation to a well balance breakfast. If some kid got Montezuma's Revenge out of the deal, it would've been the perfect segue into a lesson of Spain's involvement with the Aztecs.
What you do for Pearl Harbor ? A buffet ???
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LMFAO!!!Quote:
Originally posted by Cemetery Man:
After the lesson we made cinnamon toast "boats" with paper-and-toothpicks sails stuck in them. This was a way to learn about the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, and then we ate the fleet.
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[quote]Originally posted by Moviemaniac4:
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">haha, nah they wouldn't teach us about that during the kiddie grades. I mean these were the teachers that told us Van Gogh cut his ear off over a waitress, not a prostitute. I guess it's fortunate we didn't have a follow-up food fest to go with that story. [img]eek.gif[/img]Quote:
What you do for Pearl Harbor ? A buffet ???
All that I recall of Columbus is the rhyme, making a turkey out of a paper plate and my class doing a reinactment of the landing at Plymoth Rock where Tommy Parish, who was playing an Indian, was a bad boy and started hacking at the settlers with his paper tomahawk! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
The parents that were watching seemed amused, the teacher was defintly NOT.
When I was in school we learned about Columbus and kinda skipped over the whole Viking thing......
Grade school US History in the early '60s wasn't really real-but it was nice~ [img]eek.gif[/img]
<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ September 28, 2004 01:48 PM: Message edited by: Street Worm ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You learn by eating the fleet....... [img]eek.gif[/img]Quote:
Originally posted by Moviemaniac4:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Cemetery Man:
We first learned about him back in some early grade that I vaguely remember.
After the lesson we made cinnamon toast "boats" with paper-and-toothpicks sails stuck in them. This was a way to learn about the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, and then we ate the fleet.
Either that or there was some subtle lesson about discovering new worlds in relation to a well balance breakfast. If some kid got Montezuma's Revenge out of the deal, it would've been the perfect segue into a lesson of Spain's involvement with the Aztecs.
What you do for Pearl Harbor ? A buffet ???</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">God I laughed hard at that!
Which reminds me...when I worked in the converter lab at Comcast one of my fellow workers was half Japanese. Every December 7th I used to make a paper airplane, light it on fire, throw it at him and yell, "Tora, Tora, Tora!" [img]wink.gif[/img]
...and you are not up on hate crime charges because...? [img]wink.gif[/img]
Hmmm...now, I am sure I had to do stupid elementary school art projects, too...but damned if I can recall any single one of them. You know...maybe a person really can drink too much. Go figure. *shrugs, opens another bottle*
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">He was only half Japanese so I only half meant it. Nah, it was all in fun. In fact he started to remind me to do it the years I would forget. [img]wink.gif[/img]Quote:
Originally posted by -Dark Angel-:
...and you are not up on hate crime charges because...? [img]wink.gif[/img]
Hmmm...now, I am sure I had to do stupid elementary school art projects, too...but damned if I can recall any single one of them. You know...maybe a person really can drink too much. Go figure. *shrugs, opens another bottle*
Oh, by the way....
His name was "Cristobal Colon", not "Christopher Colombus". I wonder why we have to translate names to english...we don't call your president "Jorge"
Anyway, that came to my attention when watching "Master and Commander" (go rent). You imagine this Colon guy who takes a bunch of sailors and criminals into open waters to the unknown, with the storms, the pressure from the crew, etc.....
...sure, we learned all about Chris.
...in 1492.
...Columbus sailed the blue.
...he hit a rock.
...and out came his ****.
...and his pissed all over his crew!
...The End!
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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LMFAO!!! That is so wrong it's..... right! [img]tongue.gif[/img]Quote:
Originally posted by Andyman:
Which reminds me...when I worked in the converter lab at Comcast one of my fellow workers was half Japanese. Every December 7th I used to make a paper airplane, light it on fire, throw it at him and yell, "Tora, Tora, Tora!" [img]wink.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">[img]confused.gif[/img] Why I even bother......Quote:
Originally posted by StV:
...sure, we learned all about Chris.
...in 1492.
...Columbus sailed the blue.
...he hit a rock.
...and out came his ****.
...and his pissed all over his crew!
...The End!
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well i went to the catholic school, so we were taught christopher columbus had some crazy jesus-addled vision that said "hey! keep going, you won't fall off the end!"
........or maybe i just didn't pay that much attention and i'm really bitter about that whole time of my life.
i blame the ADHD.
oh, and then we got really dry turkey and questionable gravy for lunch that day....
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You see.....you jump from Colon to the settlers in US, and that was many, many years later. There were not even turkeys in the islands.Quote:
Originally posted by Biohazard:
oh, and then we got really dry turkey and questionable gravy for lunch that day....
we learnd all kinds of history in school..but I dont rember much...I was kinda looking at other stuff.. [img]wink.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh that one was popular, we did those too. Halloween time in grade school was the best for goof-off crafts! Well except for one thing: they had us all color these handouts of a generic looking ghost. Afterwards we had to trade them, and I got stuck with someone's brown colored ghost. A brown ghost?! So I ended up walking home with the Colonic Spectre, true story.Quote:
Originally posted by macabeee:
making a turkey out of a paper plate
Best Halloween craft ever was us making almost life-size paper mache ET. He actually came ok, go figure.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That would have been cool!Quote:
Originally posted by Cemetery Man:
Best Halloween craft ever was us making almost life-size paper mache ET. He actually came ok, go figure.
The best craft that I can remember is the clothes pin Rudolph that we got to use wood stain and liquid nails (er, more like Elmer's Wood Glue) on. Tommy Parrish (he was obviously the bad kid in class, and from what I hear now resides in Jackson State Pen.) tried to eat the glue and it made him really sick!