LNC Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 My mom saved all my desk papers and filing cabinet contents. I have every scrap of paper from 7th-12th grades for math, science, history and several english classes. I have dozens of essays, research papers and projects. My children are definately outperforming my background in math, science and electives like Latin and Logic. I am a little concerned about writing and history. My outlines and essay tests in 7th and 8th grade history were extremely impressive. I think I really need to up my writing requirements. I wrote 1000x more than they do. It was a blast to read about all of the books I read. It was hilarious to see my algebra 1 and 2 errors. Where was Mr. Mosley when I needed him! Has anyone else looked through their old schoolwork? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poiema Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 I only have a few essays and some standardized tests scores. It is fun to look back a read that stuff. I also have most of my college essays and tests and it surprises me how much I knew then that I don't remember now. :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeLovePassion Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Yes. My mom saved a ton, and she just gave me a HUGE box and bag full of it. I have to sort through it. I won't be saving as much as she gave me, maybe a few things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bassoon Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Me, too! I thought I was the only one. . . My mom keeps finding these "gems" from my childhood. She found a paper I wrote in 5th grade, about "Emporer (sic) Penguins". My kids couldn't believe that I spelled it wrong during the WHOLE paper, and got an A+! WHAT was my teacher smoking??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Me, too! I thought I was the only one. . . My mom keeps finding these "gems" from my childhood. She found a paper I wrote in 5th grade, about "Emporer (sic) Penguins". My kids couldn't believe that I spelled it wrong during the WHOLE paper, and got an A+! WHAT was my teacher smoking??? LOL, I thought the same thing when I read a 4th or 5th grade report about Blue Whales. At one point in the paper, I said they were extinct, at another point I said they were nearly extinct. I got an A. I was thinking, that is a fairly large problem.... Of course, I did it all myself and the rest was decent. My cursive was also very nice! It was also funny to see traced copies of things and photocopied pictures cut out and pasted with real scissors and glue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 I don't think my mother saw a tenth of my schoolwork from those years, much less saved it! It would take up my whole basement to have all that stuff! But I did, myself, save a few things that are in various places and every once in awhile I come across them and am like, ooh, I got 10/10 on that essay question. :) For years and years I had all my 10th grade seminar readings and I know I even used a few of them (hey, they were already all formatted!) the first year I taught 10th grade history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNC Posted December 13, 2012 Author Share Posted December 13, 2012 My children's thoughts: 1. It would be really difficult to do well in high school math at school. I got things wrong with minimal corrections, just an x usually. So I continued on making the same mistakes in homework, quizzes, and tests. My parents would not pay for a tutor. It never occurred to them. I had straight As in everything else, Aps, NM commended (my tein was a finalist bc she got 700s in math and I scored much lower.) etc. I was in non honors track just for math, algebra in 9th. My children said if I had a solutions manual and a mom poring over my daily work I would have been better off. :) 2. I made copious, detailed outlines from my textbooks to study for Ap history tests. My children are seriously intimidated. 3. Essay tests in every class. This freaked them out. 4. My 8th grader cried that she is way behind writing where I was at her grade . She is at the level of my 7th grade folder. I had tons of corrections in my writing and improved a ton before 8th grade. If my daughter stops being offended at corrections of her weak theses statements, we have time to fix her writing! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 I only have a manila folder of high school essays and writing assignments that our high school English teachers saved for us and gave us at graduation. I have just kept it with my diploma all these years. This post just reminded me it is there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down_the_Rabbit_Hole Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 My mom kept samples from each year and she had one of those year book things you keep a pic, height, teacher, classmates and stuff. On the back of those pages you put favorite things about the grade, sign it and mark off what you want to be when you grow up, plus an envelope to put report cards. When I made a photo scrapbook of my childhood I made scans of it all and shrunk them so each page in the scrapbook for each age has all the things from school plus any pictures for the year. My dd recently looked at the scrapbook and was very critical of my schoolwork pointing out the misspellings, grammar problems and such (I think I created a monster) but she got a kick out of all the things I wanted to be when growing up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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