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Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Well folks, here's where it all started. I was in grade five. Horses   "Horses are my favourite animal because they are kind and gentle. If I had a horse I would not put a bit in his mouth or blinkers on the side of his head or put steel shoes on him because they do not like it. I would not put a saddle on him. For you wouldn't like it if you had a peice of steel in your mouth or a heavy saddle on your back or shoes nailed into your feet. Would you? No, I wouldn't that's for sure." By Val Rainey - Grade 5 1964-1965 Comment by my mom….. "Val wrote this sometime ago for school -- after reading Black Beauty. Had meant to send in on before." Comment by my grandmother… "This is a nicely organized composition. It states a premise. It follows through with three statements, then uses the three to express the writers convictions. It asks and answers a retorical question. It has a concluding statement. I would suggest giving this child a sturdy notebook and encouraging her to write something every day, if only a couple sentences. Who knows she might make her name in journalisam field." All above material enclosed in quotation marks are exact transcript of original including spelling, grammar and punctuation.

Verse Samples Open a book and explore new worlds… There's one waiting just for you! Laugh….it's good for you! ... more to come Writing Samples Books and the Timeless Ritual of Reading Caregiving or Just how did I get myself in to this

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