Mrs. Olsen is back at Sprague, ready and willing to teach 176 Freshman students history.
This is the first time in her career she has taught the same class. That means she will be able to be even more creative and use the new teaching methods she learned in Boston this summer.
Mrs. Olsen is a graduate of Sprague High School, and though she looks about 29, she can remember the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
That's a lot of history since then.
She spent her summer building her front deck and painting her house. She has two rabbits, two dogs, and two cats that think they own her. It has been a long hot summer, and she is happy to be back and the air conditioned school. This summer she spent some time with the National Endowment for the Humanities in the Boston Area learning about the first major Indian War with the Colonists. She also spent some time in Plymouth and saw where the
pilgrims lived. She even ate a pilgrim meal that was authentic for the time. It wasn't quite Burger King. She asked if they had catsup, and the leaders gave her a dirty look. Mrs. Olsen puts catsup on the catsup.
We will start this year reading a great book about a boy growing up in a New York tenement called Finn Reardon. This will be one of many books we will read this year. I'm looking forward having a great year in my new room, Room 161.
