SOME STUDENTS GET BEST HISTORY LESSON BY BECOMING BUDDIES WITH SENIORS; PUPILS LEARN ABOUT LIFE PENNING BIOGRAPHIES.Byline: Dennis McCarthy Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
You take Buddy Rodgers Walkway walkway Rehabilitation medicine An instrument used to measure the timing of foot contact and or position of the foot on the ground , and turn right at Mary Pickford Lane to find them - school kids sitting next to their elderly buddies See buddy list. Thursday, reading out of books the kids wrote in honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. of the seniors. Biographies they have been working on since the beginning of the school year when Angela Bronson's third-grade class at Balboa Elementary School Balboa Elementary School is an elementary school serves students in Kindergarten through sixth grade in the San Diego, California, United States, as part of the San Diego City Schools. left their playground Playground - A visual language for children, developed for Apple's Vivarium Project. OOPSLA 89 or 90? and classroom behind, and entered the world of the elderly living in Eisenberg Village at the Jewish Home for the Aging. Some 8- and 9-year-old boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. got the best history lesson in the world by becoming buddies with some seniors living at the end of Mary Pickford Lane. It's all in the books. It's ``Walter's Life'' by 8-year-old James Frier, sitting by 92-year-old Walter Schell's wheelchair wheel·chair or wheel chair n. A chair mounted on large wheels for the use of a sick or disabled person. wheelchair, n Thursday, reading back to him the life that the old man has told the boy on his monthly trip to the home to visit his buddy. Walter telling James how it was growing up in Germany and having the Nazis take away the family business after 110 years in the Schell name - how it was to be sent to a concentration camp and never see your family again. James Frier listened and learned. Then, he wrote it all down for his buddy. It's ``Annett and I'' by 9-year-old Jeffrey Sohn, and ``All About My Buddy Frieda,'' by 8-year-old Derek Wang. It's Samantha wishing she had the power to give her buddy, Pearl, a beautiful face so she could be the actress she always wanted to be. You see, Pearl had a stroke and her face sags on one side, but Samantha doesn't see it that way, she writes. She thinks Pearl's face is beautiful just the way it is. It's ``Bertha ber·tha n. A wide deep collar, often of lace, that covers the shoulders of a dress. [French berthe, after Bertha (died 783), Carolingian queen as the wife of Pepin the Short.] , Ethel and I,'' by 8-year-old Ryan Ito. All about how Bertha's dream in life was to stay a child forever, but she couldn't. She had to grow up, then she had to grow old. And now, Ryan was sad because Bertha had gotten too old in the middle of his book to even be his buddy anymore. One day he went to visit her and she could not get out of bed to see him anymore. So, he became buddies with Ethel Schwartz, who wanted to be a famous painter, but instead, ``stayed home and read books for a living,'' Ryan wrote. ``If I could give my buddy anything, I would give her more youth,'' he concluded wisely in this history lesson of his. It's ``About Lee Gould,'' by 8-year-old Karin Dolin - about a buddy who was just like a pilgrim because she lived in England once and grew up at the turn of the century. ``Her goal in life was to grow up, be a mother, a grandmother, a great-grandmother and a good person. She achieved them all,'' Karin Dolin wrote. Maybe, most of all, though, this wonderful history lesson these kids are receiving firsthand first·hand adj. Received from the original source: firsthand information. first comes through loud and clear in ``My Buddy Esther,'' written by 9-year-old Veronica Tarlitz. She was not there Thursday, teacher Angela Bronson said. She hasn't been back to the Jewish Home for the Aging since she wrote Chapter Five in late March, the chapter in which she learns her buddy has died. ``I had this horrible feeling in my heart when I went to the home, and Esther was not there. That's when the terrible, horrible thing happened. ``On Tuesday, March 25th, 1997, my buddy Esther Klein died of cancer. That's when I realized going to the Jewish Home for the Aging would never be the same for me again.'' She dedicates the book to ``My dear buddy, Esther Klein, who now looks down on me from heaven.'' From cradle to grave, history doesn't get any clearer or more poignant than down at the end of Mary Pickford Lane where the generations meet and learn. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Eight-year-old Lucia Trapote, a third-grader at Balboa Elementary School, looks with Eva Graff, 95, at the book of Graff's life. Evan Yee/Daily News |
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