Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Rewrite: The Ungrateful student

     I remember back in 1st grade there was a little boy who was the teacher's favorite. He would always  help the teacher whenever he could and was the brightest in his class. The teacher always trusted his opinion in the class. Although he was a well behaved boy, he was often jealous of all his classmates who brought their colorful backpacks filled  with new notebooks, crayons, colored pencils, and pencil boxes. His family was poor so they could not afford new notebooks and supplies for him.
    One day in the beginning of class as everyone hung up there backpacks on their hooks and went to sit down in their seats, the little boy decided to open one of the girl's backpacks and took her pencil sharpener. The next day he did the same only this time he took another student's pencils. This continued for about a week as he stole small notebooks,erasers,and crayons. The teacher was informed by the students of their missing school supplies and quickly asked the whole class if anyone had seen another person steal something from the student's backpacks. The little boy began to notice everyone slowly turn their eyes at him then the teacher asked him if he knew anything about this. In a panic the boy quickly blamed it on Sophia another girl who was just as poor as him. The class believed him and so did the teacher. The following week Sophia was punished and had to stay in class during lunch every day. while the little boy went back to stealing.
   One day as Sophia was heading to class for lunch she saw the little boy grabbing another student's lunch money from the backpack, she quickly ran into the class and told the teacher. They both rushed outside and found him stuffing his pocket with the lunch money, he had been caught. Sophia was finally free to play during lunch, but the little boy had to return everything he had stolen and had to stand in front of the cafeteria with a sign that read "ungrateful student". For the rest of the school year kids would tease and remind him of what e had done and shunned him for that.

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