Up The Down Staircase

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They should keep themselves to themselves. We don't need them. We have our own life to live. We did without them for a long time, why should we change now? They only cause trouble.

A Negro Student

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In Social Stud. we discust it to death, I'm sick and tired of the whole thing. Last time I'm writting!

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Personaly I got intergrated a long time ago by swaping homework with all the kids in my class.

Failing

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Can you guess by my hand writing if I'm white or not?

A Bashful Nobody

PART VIII

37. Neatly, in Ink

NOTE BOOK

Alice Blake Calvin Coolidge High

Home Room Teacher: Home Room—304

Miss Barrett

Keep all material in note-book. Write neatly, in ink. 1 1/2 inch margins.

'I'm a stranger and afraid

In a world I never made'

How true, how true! How did the author know?....

Correct the following for Fri.

1. Rowing on the lake the moon was romantic.

Correction—While rowing on the lake the moon was romantic?

Or—Rowing on the lake, the moon, was romantic?

2. Looking out of the window was a tree.

Correction—Looking out of the window a tree appeared in view.

3. I found a pencil loitering in the hall.

Correction—A pencil loitering in the hall was found by me.

Active vocabulary—Use three times to make the word yours.

Passive vocabulary—Don't use three times.

Bring in own sentences illustr. vocab. words:

enigmatic — She was very enigmatic,

vindictive — She was very vindictive,

vacillating — She was very vacillating.

Hand in tomorrow—History & Math

Look up and memorize dates & events leading up to war

Chapt. 14 Ans. quest. 1-10 back of book

May have test tomorrow. (Be absent!)

'April is the cruellest month mixing something and desire . . .'

Note to myself—Memorize all poetry lines Barringer reads.

His voice . . . the way his eyebrows goes up . . . the hair on the back of his hands ... it is too much . . . too much to bear . . .

Have Ma sign this—

PARENTS’ CONSENT SLIP

I HEREBY GIVE MY (SON, DAUGHTER) _______ PERMISSION TO PURCHASE TICKETS FOR ________ I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS PRODUCTION WAS INTENDED PRIMARILY FOR ADULTS AND NOT FOR CHILDREN. SIGNATURE OF PARENT OR GUARDIAN:________

DATE:________

Carole—Did you read Fanny Hill yet?

Alice

I read Topic of Cancer, nothing to it.

Carole

Let's see your Math.

Alice

I didn't do it. I'm 4 days late and Frantick!

Carole

Who you kidding? You're only a virgin! A.

That's what you think! Is this a long Home Room? C.

I can't make out your handwriting . . . whisper instead of marking up my note-book. A,

Can't—Miss Barrett is looking this way! C.