Excerpts from my 3rd Grade Journal

O.K...just got inspired (see previous post)!

My mother found my 3rd grade journal (a class project) and shared it with my daughter last night. There's not much in it. It was designed to be a study of my family - to help me understand where I came from and appreciate my family. My wonderful 3rd grade teacher (and that's not sarcasm - I really loved her!) would give us a title and let us write. She even gave us a list of questions to ask our grandparents for interviews to learn about the past.

I got an S+++ on my efforts. She even gave me the coveted "Excellent", Top Hat Frog, stamp of approval. My favorite of the "Excellent" stamps in her covey of stamps. Mainly because I loved and collected frogs as a young girl (live ones as well as statues and stuffed animals).

Here are a list of Titles that I was working with:
Family Tree
Family Names
Whats [sic] In a Name
My Role In The Family
Kids Nowadays Have It Easy
My Father's Better Than yours [sic]
An Interview With my Grandmother
An Interview With my Grandfather
How my Family Spends Time Toghether [sic]
The rights To Privacy
T.V. Familie's [sic]
The Boss
The Thing That Changed Our Family
How I Want to be Rememberd [sic]

Topics beginning at "My Role In The Family" were all written in cursive. I know things were spelled incorrectly - therefore the addition of [sic] to let you know that I know - remember - I was only in the 3rd grade.

So....where to start? How 'bout the beginning. And since I can't duplicate the picture of the "Family Tree", I'll start with "Family Names". Though I know you can't wait to hear "My Father's Better Than yours". Again- the teacher's title, not mine.

"Family Names" P. 2
Julia Suzanne Becknell (1969 - )
Concord, North Carolina

Jack R. Becknell Jr. (1943 - )
Concord, North Carolina

Rebecca Ann Stokes Becknell Jr. (1948 - )
Concord North Carolina

Jewell Etoil [sic - Etoile] Slawson Stokes (1913 - )
Noxapator Mississippi Soth Carlina [sic for two reasons - should have been NC]

Joseph Gray Becknell (1973 - )
New Bern North Carolina

Albert Berton [sic] Stokes (1912 - )
Kemper Mississippi Soth Carolina [sic - should be NC]

Elizabeth Agnes Wilkins Becknell ( - )
Gaffney North Carolina

Jack R. Becknell Sr. ( - )
Gaffney North Carolina

As you can see - I didn't do too much research into the birth year of my Dad's parents. I was lucky that I had all of my grandparents at that point. I even had a set of living Great Grands...why they weren't included, I don't know. Could be because I ran out of room on the page (this was one neatly written and spaced page I'll tell you). Could be I was running out of time and this darned page was due! I was a procrastinator way back then too.

In any event, I have no idea why they weren't included on this page.
In the future - I'll share some entries with you.